#music

I never advise anyone to sacrifice something else because of music, but then I don't see why they would have to anyway. ↗

— Mick Taylor

#anyone #anyway #because #else #i

I suppose because I have a good ear, I could pick out harmonies and learn by ear. I still think that you have to have an ear for music to really be able to feel and understand what you're playing. You can learn by watching and listening to other people. ↗

— Mick Taylor

#because #could #ear #feel #good

The Blues scene now is international. In the '50s it was purely something that you would hear in black clubs, played by black musicians, especially in America. But from the '60s onwards it changed. ↗

— Mick Taylor

#black #blues #changed #clubs #especially

The most important thing is to follow your instinct and get involved with some friends who have similar tastes and aspirations and like music as much as you do. ↗

— Mick Taylor

#follow #friends #get #important #important thing

The Stones are a different kind of group. I realized that when I joined them. It's not really so much their musical ability, it's just they have a certain kind of style and attitude which is unique. ↗

— Mick Taylor

#attitude #certain #different #different kind #group

But you know in the contemporary art world, you pose a very interesting conundrum. All sorts of people collect very contemporary art, yet when it comes to the music which is analogous to that sort of art, they are not interested, or perhaps even hostile. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

#art #art world #collect #comes #contemporary

Earlier in my life, I performed a lot of music. Some of it because I felt it was a demonstration, or a representation of certain intellectual concepts that were very exciting and important. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

#certain #concepts #demonstration #earlier #exciting

The first year I started in San Francisco, there was an American work on every program and there's been a lot of music by living composers and gradually that was part of the process of getting the audience really to trust me. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

#audience #been #composers #every #first

The whole path of American music has been so much about the recognition of stylistic diversity, and the recognition of the importance of music which was from one of the vernacular traditions. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

#american #american music #been #diversity #importance

I've heard some tunes in recent years that were pretty close to that same idea. The idea was you turn on the radio and you want to hear some music and up comes a commercial. ↗

— Mose Allison

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