#ma

To some degree, yeah, because I have to play a certain number of originals that might be considered avant-garde material. I realize though, that only a few people in the audience actually know what that music is, or understand it. ↗

— Archie Shepp

#audience #avant-garde #because #certain #considered

I've had many a player tell me all through high school and right up until signing day that they were coming to Alabama, then they signed with somebody else. ↗

— Bear Bryant

#coming #day #else #had #high

The common prejudice that love is as common as "romance" may be due to the fact that we all learned about it first through poetry. But the poets fool us; they are the only ones to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#romance #experience

There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people. ↗

— Gavin Bryars

#another way #feelings #lives #making #music

Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know what he thinks he knows. ↗

— James Bryce

#does #know #knows #made #makes

Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever. ↗

— Peabo Bryson

#answers #being #being alone #content #dilemmas

The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries. ↗

— Georg Buchner

#counted #humanity #only #slow #strides

The line between greatness and obscurity is very, very small. ↗

— Peabo Bryson

#greatness #line #obscurity #small #very

God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings. ↗

— Martin Buber

#beings #commands #fulfill #god #his

I connect emotionally to these songs. I mean what I say when I say it, and that allows your audience to connect. That's the number-one reason why any music is successful, because you make people feel something. ↗

— Michael Buble

#any #audience #because #connect #emotionally