Music making Quote by Gary Giddins Download Open image “You've got to have a gimmick if your band sucks.” — Gary Giddins ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Music making
Don't change a thing. That's one of the best gimmicks a band could ever come up with. — Garth Brooks Copy Share Image
I said that the only way I could have a band that would work in the format of my show is if the band… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
It is difficult to be that band that doesn't do things the way other bands do it. It's a blessing and a curse. — Tobias Forge Copy Share Image
I'm just really interested, when a band plays and they think they sucked from a band perspective. — Pat Smear Copy Share Image
If some band sucks, you're going to have to find out about it for yourself, because I don't have the interest in issuing warnings. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Everyone has felt they kind of sucked sometimes, especially with us when the band first started and we didn't fit into anything. — Calum Hood Copy Share Image
I'd been playing in bands for something like seven years at this point. And we were always trying to get ahead, trying to rehearse and sound professional. But then I go to see the Jam Band (Joe Perry and Tom Hamilton's band before Aerosmith), and it blew me away. I wasn't expecting too much. Then they got up there and… — Aerosmith Copy Share
The nice thing about being a band that nobody knows about is that you can do whatever you want. — Jonathan Meiburg Copy Share Image
Even my colleagues don't read classic criticism. And my feeling is that if you don't do that then you're not really practicing your craft.… — Gary Giddins Copy Share Image
I'm a critic. That means you are a writer. So, yes, you have to make yourself an authority on whatever subject it's going to be. Music, movies, literature, whatever it's going to be, but what you really want to do is learn your trade by reading other writers. I think you have to read veraciously, especially people who have done… — Gary Giddins Copy Share
You're writing for some version of yourself. You're writing the kinds of things that you like to read or wanted to read at a… — Gary Giddins Copy Share Image
One of the things I always underscore when I teach criticism is that young critics, or would be critics, frequently have this illusion that if they write about music they're somehow part of music, or if they write about movies they're part of movies, or of they write about theater they're part of theater, or write about literature. Writing is… — Gary Giddins Copy Share
Writing style is something is a consequence of who you are. I think that I had a certain propensity for a style that I recognize in my early work, but that doesn't mean I didn't have to learn certain basics and the longer you write the better you get. The rhythms come from you. If the rhythm seem to echo… — Gary Giddins Copy Share
I think all of us begin as writers. I wanted to be a writer from the time I as eight, long before I heard of jazz. The question is, once you have that obsession, what is your subject going to be and you often don't know for some time. It might become fiction, it might be non-fiction, and if it's… — Gary Giddins Copy Share
People should not feel intimidated by received wisdom. You have to discover it yourself. If I tell you that Armstrong is great, it's meaningless;… — Gary Giddins Copy Share Image
I hate the idea of turning jazz into homework assignments. I would never have a quiz saying, "Who's the clarinetist on the Hot Five?"… — Gary Giddins Copy Share Image
Jazz is for joy. It's for euphoria, it's for emotion, and anguish, and excitement, and all of the joys that great art can produce,… — Gary Giddins Copy Share Image
Bing Crosby said that Armstrong is "the beginning and the end of music in America," and he wasn't far wrong. — Gary Giddins Copy Share Image
Nobody knows where jazz is going, because nobody has ever known where jazz was going. I mean, you couldn't possibly predict the Swing Era… — Gary Giddins 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
The reason I was drawn to the Band Perry was because they have a knack for doing rollicking country music that can sound a… — Phoebe Robinson Copy Share Image
There has always been a feeling with people that they love my singing but not always the choice of material. — Alison Moyet Copy Share Image
Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that. — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
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
I think my music has always been a mixture, depending on whom I'm working with - what band, what musicians, what producer. — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
When I act, I act. When I sing, I sing. I don't put one over the other. Entertaining is what I do best. — Irene Cara 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
As you'll never hear the thing again, my boy, why not throw in a couple of brass bands? — Thomas Beecham Copy Share Image
When I first started making music, it was learning other people's songs and putting them onto four-track. Like Beatles songs and stuff. When I… — M. Ward Copy Share Image
