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Sometimes it’s to your advantage for people to think you’re crazy.
Thelonious Monk
Quote of the Day #3
The essential function of art is moral. Not aesthetic, not decorative, not pastime and recreational. But Moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind. Changes the blood first. The mind follows later, in the wake.
D. H. Lawrence
Quote of the Day #4
No other acoustic instrument can match the piano’s expressive range, and no electric instrument can match its mystery.
Kenneth Miller
Quote of the day #5
Life is a lot like jazz.. it’s best when you improvise.
George Gershwin (via lapomegranate)
The piano ain’t got wrong notes! There are only wrong ways to resolve them
Thelonious Monk (via mountstnobody)
Quote of the day #6
We don’t like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
Decca Recording Company rejecting the Beatles, 1962
There are still so many beautiful things to be said in C major.
—Sergei Prokofiev
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
— Igor Stravinsky
One needs only to study a certain positioning of the hand in relation to the keys to obtain with ease the most beautiful sounds, to know how to play long notes and short notes and to [attain] certain unlimited dexterity… A well formed technique, it seems to me, [is one] that can control and vary a beautiful sound quality.
Frederic Chopin
A little advice from a master…
