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«A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.»
Author: Benny Green
| Keywords:
an orange, harmonies, jazz, jazz musician, juggler, jugglers, musician, oranges, The Jazz
«In 1908 Handy didn't know anything about the blues and he doesn't know anything about jazz and stomps to this day. I myself figured out the peculiar form of mathematics and harmonies that was strange to all the world but me.»
Author: Jelly Roll Morton
(Pianist)
| Keywords:
blues, come in handy, figured, handier, Handy, harmonies, jazz, stomp, stomping, stomps, to this day
«My vocation is more in composition really than anything else - building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army.»
Author: Jimmy Page
(Guitarist)
| Keywords:
building up, composition, harmonies, orchestrated, orchestrating, vocation
«Yes, I heard my people singing!--in the glow of parlor coal-stove and on summer porches sweet with lilac air, from choir loft and Sunday morning pews--and my soul was filled with their harmonies. Then, too, I heard these songs in the very sermons of my father, for in the Negro's speech there is much of the phrasing and rhythms of folk-song. The great, soaring gospels we love are merely sermons that are sung; and as we thrill to such gifted gospel singers as Mahalia Jackson, we hear the rhythmic eloquence of our preachers, so many of whom, like my father, are masters of poetic speech.»
Author: Paul Robeson
(Activist, Actor, Singer)
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choir, choirs, choir loft, coal, eloquence, folk, folk song, gifted, glow, gospel, Gospels, harmonies, Jackson, lilac, lilacs, loft, Negro, parlor, parlors, phrasing, poetic, porches, preachers, rhythmic, rhythms, sermons, singers, soaring, summer sweet, Sung, The Choir, The Glow, thrill
«Faith makes the discords of the present the harmonies of the future.»
«I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
| About:
Art,
Music
| Keywords:
chord, chords, draw, drawing power, drawn-out, draw out, harmonies, musician, sounds, The Chords, The Violin, violin, violins
«Talking is one of the fine arts - the noblest, the most important, the most difficult - and its fluent harmonies may be spoiled by the intrusion of a single harsh note»
«Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best of minds. Men live on the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter, and with their hands on the door-latch they die outside.»
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