“SPEAK OF TROUBLE highlights the abilities of Lowell Sostomi as singer/songwriter and brings together a talented band of musicians with amazing dexterity, loads of energy, and very original arrangements. Im impressed.” TogetherEnergySpeakAbilityTroubleBandMusicianOriginalsSingersLoadImpressedSongwritersArrangementsSinger SongwritersHighlightsDexterity Author:Gordon Lightfoot
“I don't want to be some actor talking about how he wants to be a musician. It's something I'm really passionate about and I don't want to be spouting off at the mouth about something before it's out there and can speak for itself.” WantActorsSpeakTalkingMusicianMouthsPassionate Author:Jared Leto
“Like many musicians, I can hear the weight in the sound. Sound is matter. We speak of the colour of an instrument, of transparency... We can demand more sombre or lighter colours, deeper playing and singing, heavier or lighter sound. And manipulating those means is like creating a painting.” MeanI CanMatterSpeakSoundPaintingDemandCreatingMusicianSingingWeightInstrumentsDeeperColourTransparencyLighters Author:Laurence Equilbey
“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.” LifeWisdomBeautifulSpeakMusicKnowledgeListeningWords Of WisdomMusicianAthleteEdgesIntelligenceDeep ThoughtNew BeginningsListening To MusicJust ListenGuitaristKnowledge WisdomJazz MusicianListen To YourselfKnowledge Is PowerEnrichingKnowledge And WisdomListening To OthersKnowledge And UnderstandingRock MusiciansEffective ListeningOld WisdomSpeaking My MindSpiritual Education Author:Jimi Hendrix
“Music speaks from spirit to spirit and in that sense you could call it a true spiritual language.” SpiritualSpiritSpeakLanguageMusicianMusic Speaks Author:John McLaughlin
“I think musicians should stay off television generally. I get asked all the time. Those shows are just promoting insipid comedies. Who watches those shows? And whoever does I don't think my music would speak to those people. I don't even want those people to hear what I'm doing.” PeopleThinkingWantShouldDoeShowsSpeakWatchesComedyTelevisionMusicianPromotingInsipid Author:Sufjan Stevens
“I would advise all young musicians to not only experience and play chamber music, but to go to operas, speak to the singers, to explore and expand your horizons.” PlayYoungSpeakMusicianSingersHorizonOperaChamberAdviseChamber Music Author:Wu Han
“She [Joni Mitchell] wanted to have that (jazz) element in her music. Of course, when she heard Jaco's [Jaco Pastorius'] music and met him, that floored her -- really grabbed her. She decided that Wayne Shorter was really conducive to her music. She would speak metaphorically about things. "I want this to sound like a taxicab driver, or a taxi in New York," or "I want this to sound like a telephone ringing." She would speak to musicians like that, and we really tuned into what she would want our music to be.” WantWantedCoursesSpeakSoundHeardNew YorkMetsElementsMusicianDecidedJazzDriversTelephonesTaxiWayne Author:Don Alias
“I speak my mind and come from a place of conscience, as well as have fun as a musician.” MindWellsSpeakFunMusicianConscienceHaving Fun Author:Bonnie Raitt
“I’m not saying that maybe there isn’t a kid out there whose behavior hasn’t been influenced by me in some way. I’m sure there is. But I can only speak for myself, and if you’d asked if my behavior had ever been affected by people I’d admired from afar, like musicians or footballers, that’d be a yes, totally.” PeopleIfsWayI CanKidsSpeakBehaviorMusicianAffectedFootballerAfar Author:Pete Doherty
“I usually don't share the music with the musicians until right before they have to record their parts, because I hate discussing it and just intellectualizing it on any level. I just want to speak from the subconscious, which knows way more about me than my intellectual side will ever know. Once I start doing the arrangements - what I call the architecture of the song - that has a lot of thought put into it.” HateSongSpeakShareMusicianIntellectualI HateArchitectureSubconscious Author:Omar Rodriguez-Lopez
“You should form your own opinions, and I think that's why social media is good because it's an alternative source of information that can help you form your opinion, that might not be your parents, and might not be what the media is trying to force down your throat. So that's why it's important for artists and musicians to speak up, because for those people who have an inkling that their parents' views aren't right or that their parents don't have any views or whatever, that's an alternative source of information that can help them form their own opinion.” PeopleThinkingTryingImportantHelpingArtistSpeakParentOpinionMusicianSocial Media Author:Ellie Rowsell
“I think I was meant to be a musician who speaks his mind about social justice issues. And I grew up in a lower middle class family, but a family that had enough money to buy a $50 guitar and a $50 amplifier, and had a basement to rehearse in. What I think the global human cost of this horrific poverty is how many Mozarts or curers of cancer are slaving away in the Maquiladoras along the Tijuana border, or in the Indonesian sweat shops? There are billions of people who will never become the people they could be, or the people they were meant to be, due to crushing poverty.” PeopleThinkingMindEnoughSpeakJusticePovertyMusicianSocial JusticeCancerCrushMiddle ClassMeant To BeHorrific Author:Tom Morello