Instruments Quote by Benny Goodman Download Open image “Too many young musicians today want to win polls before they learn their instruments.” — Benny Goodman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Instruments Music Music making Musician Polls Today Want Winning Young
We want to embrace the younger crowds and get them to embrace instruments. — Martie Maguire Copy Share Image
When we treat music as an industrial commodity, and young people as merely consumers, we overlook the joy of participating in music... of learning… — Mick Hucknall Copy Share Image
Musicians are like politicians. They're the last people who should be making music, just like politicians are the last people who should be running… — Nigel Godrich Copy Share Image
The idea that musicians should be talking about politics is, in some ways, quite a sixties' idea. Music no longer has a vanguard role… — Billy Bragg Copy Share Image
I think the most important thing that I can offer young musicians is once you get up on the bandstand, understanding that you're now… — Bobby Hutcherson Copy Share Image
When you are surrounded by talented musicians, you learn so much from them. — Sid Sriram Copy Share Image
Some musicians don't have strong opinions, or they deliberately don't have strong opinions because they want to try and sell as many records as… — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
Music is not everything in life. If a young musician looks at it that way, then he can just play his instrument like putting… — Joe Zawinul Copy Share Image
Some of the guys I played with .. didn't go around learning more about their instruments from an intellectual point of view. All they wanted was to play hot jazz, and the instrument was just a means. I'd imagine that a lot of them criticized me-said my technique was too good. Something like that. But I've always wanted to know… — Benny Goodman Copy Share
As soon as it was understood that we could handle things in our own way, it was the thrill of my life to walk… — Benny Goodman Copy Share Image
That night at Carnegie Hall was a great experience. When the thing was first put up to me I was a little dubious, not… — Benny Goodman Copy Share Image
After you’ve done all the work and prepared as much as you can, what the hell, you might as well go out and have… — Benny Goodman Copy Share Image
I think my first impression (of Bix Beiderbecke) was the lasting one. I remember very clearly thinking, 'Where, what planet, did this guy come from? Is he from outer space?' I'd never heard anything like the way he played-not in Chicago, no place. The tone-he had this wonderful, ringing cornet tone. He could have played in a symphony orchestra with… — Benny Goodman Copy Share
To this day, I don't like people walking on stage not looking good. You have to look good. If you feel special about yourself… — Benny Goodman Copy Share Image
I don't have any great love for Chicago. What the hell, a childhood around Douglas Park isn't very memorable. I remember the street fights… — Benny Goodman Copy Share Image
If a guy's got it, let him give it. I'm selling music, not prejudice. — Benny Goodman Copy Share Image
If you want to do something, you do it anyway, and handle the obstacles as they come. — Benny Goodman Copy Share Image
When I first arrived (in New York), it seemed to me the most terrifying city in the world... all those big buildings. I remember… — Benny Goodman Copy Share Image
One way or the other, if you want to find reasons why you shouldn’t keep on, you’ll find ‘em. The obstacles are all there;… — Benny Goodman Copy Share Image
Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music made. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
The only thing I try to watch carefully is that I never lose the love for the instrument. That's also why I decided against… — Nils Frahm Copy Share Image
It's difficult for people to come to the understanding that only a small minority of the people ever really get the word about life, about living abundantly and successfully. Success in the important departments of life seldom comes naturally, no more naturally than success at anything-a musical instrument, sports, fly-fishing, tennis, golf, business, marriage, parenthood, landscape gardening. But somehow people… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share
Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that. — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
Like a child exploring the attic of an old house on a rainy day, discovering a trunk full of treasure and then calling all his brothers and sisters to share the find, Richard J. 'Foster has 'found' the spiritual disciplines that the modern world has stored away and forgot, and has excitedly called us to celebrate them. For they are,… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share
The concept of humanity is an especially useful ideological instrument of imperialist expansion, and in its ethical-humanitarian form it is a specific vehicle of economic imperialism. Here one is reminded of a somewhat modified expression of Proudhon’s: whoever invokes humanity wants to cheat. To confiscate the word humanity, to invoke and monopolize such a term probably has certain incalculable effects,… — Carl Schmitt Copy Share
Kenny G, I have to be grateful to him for proving that the instrument can be played all different kinds of ways. — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
Mechanical instruments, potentially a vehicle of rational human purposes, are scarcely a blessing when they enable the gossip of the village idiot and the… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Local and state governments have outrun the federal government. The EPA has served notice that it will enact a rule requiring CO2 reductions by… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
From the 1990s onward, the financial sector created a vast array of instruments designed to separate investors from their money, financial derivatives of an… — John L. Casti Copy Share Image
[The Community's] crosses and trials give me confidence. But I derive my hope above all, and most especially, from our utter incapacity, for it is always upon nothingness that God is pleased to rear His works. If at any day we accomplish some good here, the glory will certainly be His alone, since He has employed for this end instruments… — Theodore Guerin Copy Share