Sam Andrew quotes

“... music is an immediate art; it's always happening right now ...”
-- Sam Andrew

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“... shortly before she died Janis Joplin gave me the Gibson Hummingbird she recorded "Me and Bobbby McGee" on ... Janis was a good guitar player, for her purposes .. she just wanted to play along with her songs, and she had a real pure and nice style for that ...”
-- Sam Andrew

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“... we weren't very professional; she could have gone to almost any town and put together a smoother ensemble, but we were pioneers, and professional musicians probably wouldn't have come up with what we did ... professional musicians probably wouldn't have given Janis Joplin the space to be herself, which was probably our greatest gift to her”
-- Sam Andrew

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“I took LSD and listened to Coltrane a lot; a lot of people did.”
-- Sam Andrew

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“To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.”

Source : Aaron Copland (1959). “The pleasures of music”

“Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.”

Source : FaceBook post by A.S. Byatt from Jun 30, 2010

“Design should do the same thing in everyday life that art does when encountered: amaze us, scare us or delight us, but certainly open us to new worlds within our daily existence.”

“The traditional difficulty of balancing the mechanical with the imaginative schools of photography still operates. In schools of photography meaningful art education is often lacking and on the strength of their technical ability alone students, deprived of a richer artistic training, are sent forth inculcated with the belief that they are creative photographers and artists. It is yet a fact that today, as in the past, the most inspiring and provocative works in photography come as much (and probably more) from those who are in the first place artists.”

“Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge.”

“Music is the healing force of the universe.”

“Simple music is the hardest music to play and blues is simple music.”

“Soul music is timeless.”

“Right now the music is more of a hobby since I'm making a good living as an actress.”

“Music is art, and art is an integral part of the human experience.”