Debbie Davies quotes

“When you are so strongly drawn to music, you can't not be a musician.”
-- Debbie Davies

Source : "Between Sets with Debbie Davies". Interview with Karl Stober, www.jazzreview.com. January 29, 2011.

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“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 think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and it was the truth then, and it will be the truth tomorrow.”

“I am the first instrument. I am the voice. I do not imitate other instruments. Other instruments imitate me.”

“Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose, To th' active Moon a quick brisk stroke he gave, To Saturn's string a touch more sore and grave. The motions strait, and round, and swift, and slow, And short and long, were mixt and woven so, Did in such artful Figures smoothly fall, As made this decent measur'd dance of all. And this is Musick.”

“I asked my daughter when she was 16, What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren't into Kiss. But they've all been told that it's the greatest show on Earth.”

“I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.”

“The best musicians answer something in you when you don't even know the question.”

Source : Allison Pearson (2011). “I Think I Love You”, p.224, Random House

“One of the best things about Kickstarter and crowdfunding and the collapse of the music business is a lot of artists like me have been forced to face our own weird mess about ourselves and what we thought it meant to become musicians.”

“Cause I'm a musician, I'm not really good at posing and being a model, like, modeling.”

“Just as a musician loves music and not nightingales, and a poet loves poetry and not sunsets, a painter is not primarily a person who responds to figures and landscapes. He is primarily one who loves pictures.”