Tony MacAlpine quotes

As with any true artist, change is the only constant.
-- Tony MacAlpine

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Virgil Donati is clearly the best drummer to come along in the music scene in quite some time. He is extremely unique and has embraced an original sound that has given him a signature that is unmistakable and impossible to duplicate.
-- Tony MacAlpine

#Unique #Signatures #Sound

Well sometimes I do not listen to music. But when I do it could range from Frank Sinatra to Copeland. I spend a great deal of time playing the piano because it really is my salvation at times. But I am perfectly happy just going on a long bike ride that takes many days to complete and staying away from music for a bit. It always feels so fresh when you return to the instrument with a different observation of things than when you were last there.
-- Tony MacAlpine

#Piano #Long #Different

After a point of time, when you get success and fame, money and everything, the purpose of life has to be redefined. For me, I think that purpose is to build bridges. Artists can do that very easily, more than politicians.

I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them.

I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.

An artist's job is simply to take the mirror in front of your face and hold it there. It's not to give you any answers. It is simply to take that mirror and point it at you.

Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are. That's an interesting fact when you take the idea of making money, making a living selling paintings. Only a dozen or two painters do that.

An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.

It is the constant and undying hope for improvement that makes golf so exquisitely worth playing.

My pain is constant and sharp...this confession has meant nothing

Beware of those who seek constant crowds; they are nothing alone.

Truly, a life in constant pain is the life of the damned.