#music

We have such a high drop-out rate from musicians, said the head of the college. He was right - I dropped out before I even dropped in. Months later they were still asking what had happened to me, not realising that I was on a UK tour. ↗

— Holly Johnson

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And so for a couple of years my life was divided between my music and my school books. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

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Any musical person who has never heard a Negro congregation under the spell of religious fervor sing these old songs has missed one of the most thrilling emotions which the human heart may experience. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

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But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes and ambitions, of the American Negro, in classic musical form. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

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It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

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The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

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My approach is to be part of a band that makes music, not hit songs. ↗

— Adam Jones

#band #hit #makes #music #part

But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music. ↗