#music

The music of Hendrix wakes people up to their possibilities. It's more than just dreaming about being a guitar hero. ↗

— Carlos Santana

#being #dreaming #guitar #hendrix #hero

I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time. ↗

— Carlos Santana

#any #clearly #english #goes #i

Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world. ↗

— George Santayana

#events #feelings #form #giving #inner

Music is essentially useless, as is life. ↗

— George Santayana

#life #music #useless

I got picked on a lot, even by teachers too. I liked to listen to musicals and bake, and my homeroom teacher found out and mocked me in front of the whole class for baking. ↗

— Dan Savage

#baking #class #even #found #front

Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#concentrate #concentration #helps #homework #induces

My parents were music lovers and collectors. It was around. ↗

— Boz Scaggs

#collectors #lovers #music #parents #were

I think the women - Lauryn Hill, Mary J. Blige, Erykah Badu - are doing new conceptual things and using their voices to create new American music. ↗

— Boz Scaggs

#american music #blige #conceptual #create #doing

From the time I moved to San Francisco in 1967 to play with the Steve Miller Band, there was a lot of support in the music community for one cause or another, but this one was special because it was put on by people who understood where musicians' hearts are. ↗

— Boz Scaggs

#band #because #cause #community #francisco

I really just followed my musical instincts every step of my life. ↗

— Boz Scaggs

#every step #followed #i #instincts #just