Music Quotes “Women and rhythm-section first! "Music is the only thing keeping the planet together" - Jaco Pastorius "Those songs to me don't exist, you know? So What or Kind of Blue, I'm not going to play that shit, those things are there. They were done in that era, the right hour, the right day, and it happened. It's over; it's on the record."  - Miles Davis   "I say, play your own way. Don't play what the public want — you play what you want and let the public pick up on what you doing — even if it does take them fifteen, twenty years." - Thelonious Monk "Technique is the ability to translate your ideas into sound through your instrument. This is a comprehensive technique . . . a feeling for the keyboard that will allow you to transfer any emotional utterance into it. What has to happen is that you develop a comprehensive technique and then say, Forget that. I’m just going to be expressive through the piano." - Bill Evans "Jazz is not dead - it just smells funny" - Frank Zappa "Wynton imitates other people's styles too well. You can't learn to imitate everyone else without a real deficit. I've never heard anything Wynton played sound like it meant anything at all. Wynton has no voice and no presence. His music sounds like a talented high-school trumpet player to me. He plays things really, really, really badly that you cannot screw up unless you are a bad player. I've felt embarrassed listening to him, and I'm white. Behind his humble speech, there is an incredible arrogance. And for a great black player who talks about the blues - I've never heard Wynton play the blues convincingly, and I'd challenge him to a blues standoff any time. He's jazzy the same way someone who drives a BMW is sporty." - Keith Jarrett Wine Quotes Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been brought to the greatest perfection, and it offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than, possibly, any other purely sensory thing. - Ernest Hemmingway Wine in itself is an excellent thing. - Pope Pius XII Who took the cork out of my lunch? - W.C. Fields In water one sees one's own face; But in wine one beholds the heart of another. - French proverb "I am drinking the stars!" - Dom Perignon, on his first sip of bubbly Champagne Eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart. - Ecclesiastes 9:10 Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of good wine - St. Thomas Aquinas Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul. - Alexander Pope Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried, with fewer tensions and more tolerance. - Benjamin Franklin Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile. - Homer, "The Odyssey" (9th c. B.C.) I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved. - Rose Kennedy (1890-1995) On her 100th birthday, 1991. Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man. - Ambrose Bierce,"The Devil's Dictionary," 1907