"I opened the door for a lot of people, and they just ran through and left me holding the knob." - Bo Diddley (Ellas McDaniel), born this day in 1928.
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"The more alone I am, the more focused I can get. Collaborating is trying to make a piece of music and get someone else to come up with the ideas. What's the fun of that? If you're writing anything decent, it's in you, it's your spirit coming out. If it's not an expression of how a person genuinely feels, then it's not a good song done with any conviction." - Alex Chilton, born this day in 1950.
"You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music. The thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it's real. I don't think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can't fool everybody." - Jerry Garcia
"Don't forget you're alive. We don't know what the next second will bring and what a fantastic thing this is. This can get easily forgotten in the routine of life, and that's something I'm trying to bring to my attention at all times. Don't forget you're alive. We're not dead, you know. This is the greatest thing." - Joe Strummer, 20 years gone today.
"Music is the only religion that delivers the goods." - Frank Zappa, born this day in 1940.
"The most important thing to do in your life is to not interfere with somebody else's life." - Frank Zappa, born this day in 1940.
"The universe consists of 5% protons, 5% neutrons, 5% electrons and 85% morons. Modern Americans behave as if intelligence were some sort of hideous deformity. Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not." - Frank Zappa, born this day in 1940.
"I would say that today, dishonesty is the rule, and honesty the exception. It could be, statistically, that more people are honest than dishonest, but the few that really control things are not honest, and that tips the balance." - Frank Zappa, prophet, born this day in 1940.
"The only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own. Anybody who wants religion is welcome to it, as far as I'm concerned--I support your right to enjoy it. However, I would appreciate it if you exhibited more respect for the rights of those people who do not wish to share your dogma, rapture, or necrodestination." - Frank Zappa, born this day in 1940.
"Anything played wrong twice in a row is the beginning of an arrangement." - Frank Zappa, born this day in 1940.
"If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know." - Louis Armstrong
"There was a knock on our dressing room door. Our manager shouted, 'Keith! Ron! The Police are here!' Oh, man, we panicked, flushed everything down the john. Then the door opened and it was Stewart Copeland and Sting." - Keith Richards, born this day in 1943.
"I always like junkyards. All this metal piled up - they're filled with pathos, those places. Much more pathos than most of the music I've heard. You look at it, and there's more feeling, even though it's depressing, than there is in a lot of music I hear these days. A junkyard is what it is, whereas listening to a record by, say, Styx, is something else." - Tom Verlaine, born this day in 1949.
If anyone's at The Warren Haynes Christmas Jam in Asheville hit me up and I'll buy you a beer.
"When I got out of high school, I thought, I'll take a year or two off and play the clubs, get this out of my system, and then go to med school." - Gregg Allman, born this day in 1947.
"Many people don't understand how disciplined you have to be to play jazz... And that is really the idea of democracy - freedom within the Constitution or discipline. You don't just get out there and do anything you want." - Dave Brubeck, born this day in 1920.
"Jazz stands for freedom. It's supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don't be a perfectionist - leave that to the classical musicians." - Dave Brubeck, born this day in 1920.
"One of the reasons I believe in jazz is that the oneness of man can come through the rhythm of your heart. It’s the same anyplace in the world, that heartbeat. It’s the first thing you hear when you’re born — or before you’re born — and it’s the last thing you hear. Your mother’s heartbeat is the first sound you ever hear and your own heartbeat is the last." - Dave Brubeck, born this day in 1920.
"I wasn't allowed to play in some universities in the United States and out of twenty-five concerts, twenty-three were canceled unless I would substitute my black bass player for my old white bass player, which I wouldn't do." - Dave Brubeck, born this day in 1920.
"Kinship doesn't come from skin color. It's in your soul and your mind." - Dave Brubeck, born this day in 1920.
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