"It's very difficult for me to dislike an artist. No matter what he's creating, the fact that he's experiencing the joy of creation makes me feel like we're in a brotherhood of some kind. We're in it together." - Chick Corea, born this day in 1941.
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"The idea of 'Spoonful' was that it doesn't take a large quantity of anything to be good. If you have a little money when you need it, you're right there in the right spot, that'll buy you a whole lot." - Chester Burnett (Howlin' Wolf), born this day in 1910.
"I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day." - Dean Martin, born this day in 1917.
A beautiful thread...
"It seems to take me about five years to get a record together, which is not a clever idea." - Ian Hunter, born this day in 1939.
"Brushes..? Nah. Hit 'em as hard as you can." - John Bonham, born this day in 1948.
"I was never attracted to being a very proficient singer or player. I suppose I was interested in creating a vision; in the same way I was very drawn to tension within cinema. Hitchcock was my other early obsession - 'Psycho' and its score. So there was the sense of trying to create an atmosphere: how a sound resonates and makes an effect." -Siouxsie Sioux, born this day in 1957.
"If you pour some music on whatever's wrong, it'll sure help out." - Levon Helm, born this day in 1940.
Yes, please...
"God, I'm just a fat bald guy, 60 years old, singing the blues, you know?" - Joe Cocker, born this day in 1944. Thanks for everything, Joe. You were much more than that.
"Poverty is not something people impose on themselves for want of effort and community organisation. It is constructed by divisive and discriminatory laws, inflexible organisations, acquisitive ideologies of wealth, a deeply rooted class system and policies which serve privilege in the short term and destroy society in the long term." - Pete Townshend, born this day in 1945.
"Don't terrorize. Organize. Don't burn. Give kids a chance to learn . . . The real answer to race problems in this country is education. Not burning and killing. Be ready. Be qualified. Own something. Be somebody. That's Black Power." - James Brown, born this day in 1933.
"A guitar player goes on the road, and he misses his girlfriend for a while, but he manages to get along. A horn player gets out on the road, plays two or three towns, and then he'll get lonely and next thing you know, he's packed up and left. It's better not to hire him in the first place." - Albert King, born this day in 1923.
"DMT was a gaseous wax you'd smoke that gave you a 20 minute psychedelic high. When you'd exhale - poof, you'd be high. I saw Buddha, man. That sounds like no big deal, but I saw a gigantic holographic Buddha. Thousands of details were included in this Buddha. I didn't make them up. I can't even draw, you know? I could barely spell cat. And there it was. I thought, Wow - the power of the mind, you know?" - Iggy Pop
"Columbia was very conservative, and the Doors were just plain too weird. They didn't want a band that said "Father I want to kill you/Mother I want to fuck you." Elektra was very brave to sign them. There was very strict censorship in those days. It was brave to put out a record that said the word "high" on it." - Paul Rothchild. record producer extraordinaire, born this day in 1935.
"I wasn't for Vietnam. When I told that to the hippie newspaper, all my people got nervous." - Loretta Lynn, born this day in 1932.
"People still come up to me and ask me to sign their records. That's right, records! Man, they don't even make records no more!" - Al Green, born this day in 1946.
"All you have to do is play one note. But it needs to be the right note." - Herbie Hancock, born this day in 1940.
"Sometimes the human race is given absolutely marvelous gifts, and we take those gifts and squander them just because we are human beings. This is all about that." - Stuart Adamson, born this day in 1958. Hope you are at peace.
"Being famous is just like being in high school. But I'm not interested in being the cheerleader. I'm not interested in being Gwen Stefani. She's the cheerleader, and I'm out in the smoker shed." - Courtney Love -
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