Music, Art and Madness Quotations and Proverbs

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(rerun) The Best Of July 2004:

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.

Over the years, I've always played that solo note for note--again, one of the few where I've done that--but it just got faster and faster onstage because we would drink more and more whiskey. Jon would have to play his already difficult part faster and faster and he would get very annoyed about it.
  • Ritchie Blackmore
Art cannot be modern, art is timeless.
  • Egon Schiele
I do not feel punished, but cleansed!
  • Egon Schiele
Everyone should sing, whether they're good at it or not
  • William Q. Johnson, journalist and humorist (1955- )
I thought 'Stairway' crystallized the essence of the band. It had everything in there, and showed the band at its best. Every musician wants to do something that will hold up for a long time, and I guess we did that with 'Stairway.'
  • Jimmy Page
When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
  • Maxim Gorky (1868-1936) _The Lower Depths_ 1902
'Free Bird' was actually one of the first songs we ever wrote. [On the studio version,] The whole long jam was Allen Collins himself. He was bad. He was super bad! He was bad to the bone bad. When we put the solo together, we liked the sound of the two guitars, and I could've gone out and played it with him. But the way he was doin' it, he was just so hot! He just did it once and did it again and it was done.
  • Gary Rossington
It takes courage to grow up & turn out to be who you really are.
  • E.E. Cummings

 

 

 

 

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