#music

All of these people kept on being professional musicians and composers in the strictest sense. ↗

— James Tenney

#composers #kept #musicians #people #professional

After that I won a prize, I was with a group of ancient music of Spain that they helped me a lot with a grant, you see, during three years. And so I made my debut in 1944 and I found myself helping my family, it was a very poor family. ↗

— Victoria de los Angeles

#ancient #debut #during #family #found

So many boys and girls talk the same way, listen to the same music, look the same. If I'm out, I'll notice the person who looks different before I notice the person who's, 'really hot.' ↗

— Jack Antonoff

#boys and girls #different #hot #i #listen

Being on a musical quest was something I always enjoyed. ↗

— Richard Rodney Bennett

#being #enjoyed #i #i always #musical

Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard. ↗

— Warren G. Bennis

#dance #encourage #forms #heard #leaders

We had to do a lot of rehearsals to get it so that it was playable. What it did was make you practice. That's good for any musician to have that kind of pressure. It brings things out of you that might not come out if you don't have to reach for something all the time. ↗

— Ray Brown

#brings #come #did #get #good

The first choral music I remember hearing was Handel's 'Messiah' when the Mormon Tabernacle Choir broadcast it over the radio. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#choir #first #hearing #i #i remember

Sometimes I write them down in musical notation as a trigger to remind me about certain directions to go. Or I can be specific about a sound I'm looking for. ↗

— Harold Budd

#certain #directions #down #go #i

You have a wine tasting of different years, and we're sort of doing that with our music, giving them a taste of what Journey used to be like. ↗

— Jonathan Cain

#doing #giving #journey #like #music

And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs. ↗

— Charlie Byrd

#carefully #financial #frugal #learn #manage