Posts By: Bob

Mozart

“Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.” Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Frank Zappa

“All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.” Frank Zappa

Jerry Lee Lewis

“Other people – they practice and they practice… these fingers of mine, they got brains in ’em. You don’t tell them what to do – they do it. God given talent.” Jerry Lee Lewis

Brian May of Queen

“I had this big thing about guitar harmonies. I wanted to be the first to put proper three-part harmonies onto a record. That was an achievement.” Brian May

Ray Charles

“I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.” Ray Charles

Billy Joel

“If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings.” Billy Joel

Les Paul

“When I got my first guitar my fingers wouldn’t go to the 6th string so I took off the big E and played with just 5 strings. I was only 6 or 7.” Les Paul