“What is scurrilously called ragtime is an invention that is here to stay. That is now conceded by all classes of musicians... All publication s masquerading under the name of ragtime are not the genuine article... That real ragtime of the higher class is rather difficult to play is a painful truth which most pianists have discovered. Syncopations are no indication of light or trashy music... Joplin ragtime is destroyed by careless or imperfect rendering, and very often players lost the effect entirely by playing too fast.” RealPlayLightNamesLostDifficultClassPlayerEffectsHigherMusicianPainfulGenuineInventionDestroyedArticlesImperfectCarelessIndicationPublicationPianistRenderingConcededRagtimePainful TruthSyncopation Author:Scott Joplin
“A musician can get lost to what he is in the session busines as it was.” LostMusicianSession Author:Big Jim Sullivan
“I work with musicians whose opinions I respect and if they don't like something they don't hold back. They'll say, 'That really sucks' and 'You've lost it' and 'You're no good anymore.' And I crawl away with my tail between my legs and I fear that kind of ridicule, but I want them to like the music I'm bringing to them.” IfsWantKindLostOpinionMusicianLegsTailsRidiculeLike Something Author:Billy Joel
“Of course we've lost so many superstars who've made jazz what it is. We've lost so many musicians who created new things and changed the way we think about music and who took jazz to a new level. So jazz is suffering from that. But we still have a lot of incredible people playing jazz in the world. We have a lot of people leading the way.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayMadeStillsSufferingCoursesLostChangeLevelsMusicChangedCreatingMusicianJazzIncrediblesNew ThingsSuperstarPlaying JazzLeading The WayCreating New Things Author:George Benson
“Once you lose that musician part -not just the playing, I'm talking about musician attitude- then you're lost, man. Especially if you started out that way. It feels so good to be back, starting from the ground up.” IfsMenWayFeelsLostLosesAttitudeTalkingMusicianStarting Author:Bootsy Collins
“Classical music gradually lost popularity because it is too complicated: you need twenty-five or thirty skilled musicians just to hum it properly. So people began to develop regular music.” PeopleNeedsLostFiveMusicianTwentiesComplicatedThirtyPopularityClassical MusicTwenty Five Author:Dave Barry
“Musicians have to do what they do and express it musically. All the blah blah blah will get lost in the dialogue.” LostMusicianDialogueBlah Author:Carlos Alomar
“When I was a kid, all I wanted to do was to be a musician. I lost everything I had, but I just knew that someday I'd be able to tell the world to 'go big or go home.' The world needs to know.” KnowsWorldNeedsHomeBigsKidsAbleWantedLostMusicianSomedayLost Everything Author:Derek Waters
“My boyfriend's a musician, and I think when he's on stage is the only time he's not worrying. And so that's the reason he keeps doing it is because it gives him that sort of experience of weightlessness that I only get out of being sort of, deep into writing something or really lost in a moment on set, like it's available to me in these select moments through my work.” ThinkingGivingWritingReasonMomentsLostWorryStageMusicianAvailableOnly TimeSelectMy BoyfriendNot WorryingWeightlessness Author:Lena Dunham
“If I had lady-spider legs, I would weave a sky where the stars lined up. Matresses would be tied down tight to their trucks, bodies would never crash through windshields. The moon would rise above the wine-dark sea and give babies only to maidens and musicians who had prayed long and hard. Lost girls wouldn't need compasses or maps. They would find gingerbread paths to lead them out of the forest and home again. They would never sleep in silver boxes with white velvet sheets, not until they were wrinkled-paper grandmas and ready for the trip.” IfsNeedsGivingLongHardHomeBodyWould BeGirlLostStarsDarkSleepWhitePathSeaSkyReadyBabyMoonPaperMusicianWineBoxesLegsForestsSilverMapsTiedCrashSheetsSpidersCompassTruckRise AboveGrandmaVelvetMaidensNever SleepGingerbreadLost Girl Author:Laurie Halse Anderson
“I think that if a real princess was lost in this modern world and she could be whatever she wanted, she would be a musician,' Blanche said slowly. 'A violinist, or a harpist. That would be the only place where she could find solace for her lost kingdom.” IfsThinkingWorldSaidRealWould BeWantedLostModernMusicianKingdomsPrincessModern WorldSolaceViolinistBlanche Author:Regina Doman