Belong Quote by Abigail Washburn

The blues scale was the first thing I learned. It's just a pentatonic scale with a flat seventh and a few notes that sound…

— Steve Vai

The musical scale is a convention which circumscribes the area of potentiality and permits construction within those limits in its own particular symmetry.

— Iannis Xenakis

scales are the grammar of music.

— Frances Parkinson Keyes

You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the…

— Ornette Coleman

There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard.

— Sun Tzu

There's a musicologist named Peter van der Merwe whose theory is that the blues generates tune families, and that their similarity to each other…

— Robert Christgau

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character.

— James Weldon Johnson

I'll tell you a little secret about the Blues: it's not enough to know which notes to play, you have to know why they…

— George Carlin

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

— James Weldon Johnson

For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty and it's not what it is for me,

— Abigail Washburn

The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.

— Michael Tippett

Blues, rock and hip hop are more about a lifestyle and culture than notes on a page.

— Jake Shimabukuro