“How good are the best musical imaginations? Can a trained musician, swiftly reading a score tell just how that voicing of dissonant oboes and flutes over the massed strings will sound?” ReadingSoundImaginationMusicMusicianMusicalScoreStringsFlutesOboes Book:Consciousness Explained Source: Consciousness Explained
“Writers and musicians know well the importance of extensive reading for successful writing or extensive listening for musical composition. Likewise, visual artists... understand that successful artistic creativity depends upon extensive visual exposure.” KnowsWritingWellsArtistReadingCreativitySuccessfulListeningDependsMusicianImportanceMusicalArtisticVisualsCompositionExposureVisual ArtVisual ArtistArtistic CreativityMusical CompositionSuccessful WritingExtensive Reading Author:Paul Laseau
“Well, my paper has asked me to do a series: Lives of the Great Musicians, reading time 2 minutes.” WellsReadingMinutesPaperMusicianSeriesGreat MusicGreat Musician Author:Dodie Smith
“A mathematician will recognise Cauchy, Gauss, Jacobi or Helmholtz after reading a few pages, just as musicians recognise, from the first few bars, Mozart, Beethoven or Schubert.” FirstsReadingMusicianPagesBarsMathematicianRecogniseSchubert Author:Ludwig Boltzmann
“As both a musician and a former teacher, I feel that music is as important to kids as reading and writing.” FeelsWritingImportantKidsReadingTeacherMusicianMusic IsFormerReading And Writing Author:Sheryl Crow
“Reading and writing music is a wonderful way of getting ideas in your head down to someone else who reads and writes, but if you don't read and write, and the other musician you're playing with are trying to express something who doesn't read and write, than it's a question of "I wrote" so that you must learn from listening and from understanding where that's coming from.” IfsWayWritingTryingIdeasReadingUnderstandingWonderfulListeningMusicianMusic IsReading And WritingWriting Music Author:Ronnie Montrose
“Since I started as a comic person then became a musician to me it was interesting because I have this really great, interesting fanbase that's really smart and energetic and uh how could I steer them towards a medium that shaped who I was? You know, steer them toward comics. That was really the goal, to bring a lot of readers cuz they were reading a lot of comics but most of them hadn't been reading American comics, they'd be reading manga sitting on the floor of a Barnes and Noble.” KnowsPersonsReadingGoalInterestingReaderMusicianSmartSittingNobleMediumsComicReally GreatEnergeticSteersCuzReally Smart Author:Gerard Way
“For me, the difference between a musician reading an arrangement on a piece of paper, and them closing their eyes and listening to what's happening around them and responding to it, is huge.” EyeReadingDifferencesPiecesHugeListeningPaperMusicianHappeningsArrangementsClosingResponding Author:Jose James
“I've got Ph.D. just because I enjoyed reading and writing and didn't know what else to do. It was something fun to do. Like it seems self-evident that I'm a musician now, but it's a really hard path. It's almost impossible.” WritingReadingFunPathImpossibleMusicianReading And Writing Author:Tim Hecker
“Look at the great athletes, musician, artists, and writers. They all tap into a source. Some call that source God or soul or spirit or consciousness. The Seven Faces of Intention: creativity, kindness, love, beauty, expansion, abundance, and receptivity. And all seven are expressions of what I imagine that source to look like. The very fact that we exist is proof to me that the nature of that source is creative at its core. And there isn't a person reading this who does not have a gnawing sense inside that there's something they're here to do, something creative.” SoulSpiritArtistReadingLove IsConsciousnessCreativityKindnessCreativeImagineMusicianIntentionSevenAthleteAbundanceImagine ThatGreat AthleteReceptivity Author:Wayne Dyer
“I have a musician friend who, after reading Mountains, told me, "When I read the book, I wanted to quit music altogether and become a doctor." I told him, "Do you really think you can be a better doctor than you are a musician? Nobody needs you as a lousy doctor. Just be the one-of-a-kind, brilliant musician you are, and divert your success somehow to benefit the poor." You can achieve so much more this way.” ThinkingBookReadingPoorAchieveMountainMusicianBrilliantQuitting Author:Regine Chassagne
“It doesn't matter if it's jazz or not. It's about how we listen, how we interact, how we guide our attention when we're listening, and how we can refine what we're doing musically. Also how we can create our own music, and what opportunities that can bring us, as creative musicians. And then insisting that musicians put themselves through an intellectually rigorous process, which involves a lot of reading and writing, while insisting that music scholars think about ethics.” ThinkingWritingReadingOpportunityAttentionCreativeListeningMusicianEthicsJazzScholarReading And Writing Author:Vijay Iyer
“If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.” IfsWantBookFunnyReadingSexEducationCollegeMusicianLibraryIronicReading BooksLibrarianRock MusicCollege EducationSchool EducationLibrary BooksCollege LifeGetting LaidLibraries And LibrariansFormal EducationGoing To CollegeColleges And UniversitiesGreat Sex Author:Frank Zappa
“But the three siblings were not born yesterday. Violet was born more than fifteen years before this particular Wednesday, and Klaus was born approximately two years after that, and even Sunny, who had just passed out of babyhood, was not born yesterday. Neither were you, unless of course I am wrong, in which case welcome to the world, little baby, and congratulations on learning to read so early in life.” WorldYearsLittlesTwoThreeCoursesReadingBornCasesParticularBabyMusicianYesterdayWelcomeTwo YearsSarcasticIronicFifteenCongratulationsVioletSiblingSunnyWednesdayFifteen YearsLearning To ReadBabyhoodThree Siblings Author:Daniel Handler