Kirke Mechem quotes

Kirke Mechem quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Only become a musician if there is absolutely no other way you can make a living.”
-- Kirke Mechem

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“So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.”

Source : Aaron Copland, Richard Kostelanetz (2004). “Aaron Copland: A Reader : Selected Writings 1923-1972”, p.32, Psychology Press
“When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to retain his amateur status. It is the thought of just such a listener that excites the composer in me.”
“I am the first instrument. I am the voice. I do not imitate other instruments. Other instruments imitate me.”
“I don't make music for eyes. I make music for ears.”

Source : "Adele Opens Up About Her Inspirations, Looks and Stage Fright", www.rollingstone.com. April 28, 2011.
“I like having my hair and face done, but I'm not going to lose weight because someone tells me to. I make music to be a musician not to be on the cover of Playboy.”
“The Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame will provide a center where the lives and the artistry of the greatest jazz musicians will be celebrated, and where people will come to learn about jazz, something to which my brother devoted his lifes work.”
“Pablo Casals is a great musician in all he does: a cellist without equal, and extraordinary conductor and composer with something to say. I have been profoundly impressed by all I have heard of his work, but he is a musician of this stature because he is also a great man.”
“It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.”
“In the last stage of the spiritual master's life, the devotees of the spiritual master should take preaching activities into their own hands. In this way the spiritual master can sit down in a solitary place and render nirjana-bhajana.”
“I am officially Jewish, but Iâ€™m Jewish in the same way the Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant.”

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