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Music Quotes - Page 24

Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.

"Eddie Van Halen Donates 75 Guitars To Los Angeles Schools" by Anna Almendrala, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 12, 2012.

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

Charles Mingus' statement in Mainliner Magazine (July 1977); later quoted in Olivia Bertagnolli "Creativity and the writing process" (p. 182), 1982.

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”

The essential elements of singing are voice, musicianship, and story. It is the rare artist that has all three in abundance.

Linda Ronstadt (2013). “Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir”, p.196, Simon and Schuster