Music Quotes - Page 24
Playing 'bop' is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.
1954 In Look, 10 Aug.
Charles Mingus' statement in Mainliner Magazine (July 1977); later quoted in Olivia Bertagnolli "Creativity and the writing process" (p. 182), 1982.
"Of Minnie the Moocher and Me".
The blues will always be because the blues are the roots of all American music.
Willie Dixon, Don Snowden (1989). “I am the blues: the Willie Dixon story”
There are only two things worth aiming for, good music and a clean conscience.
1938 Letter to Willy Strecker
Linda Ronstadt (2013). “Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir”, p.196, Simon and Schuster