{"id":1192,"date":"2010-07-23T12:57:33","date_gmt":"2010-07-23T16:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=1192"},"modified":"2010-07-23T12:57:33","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T16:57:33","slug":"great-musicians-sharing-what-ive-learned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=1192","title":{"rendered":"Great musicians sharing, &#8220;What I&#8217;ve learned&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">As a long-time reader\u00a0of American magazine <em>Esquire<\/em>, I have always enjoyed the feature \u201cWhat I\u2019ve learned\u201d. \u00a0This is an invaluable\u00a0collection of wisdom from guest columnists on the lessons learned through life. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">Here are a dozen gems from musicians Elvis Costello, Emmylou Harris and Ray Charles. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">Songs are more powerful than books. \u2013 Elvis Costello <\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">I\u2019ve seen a lot of exotic places in my work and my traveling. But the place I still want to see is the place in somebody\u2019s eyes. You know: Travel less, see more. \u2013 Elvis Costello <\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">We\u2019re all just animals. That\u2019s all we are, and everything else is just an elaborate justification of our instincts. That\u2019s where music comes from. And romantic poetry&#8230; \u2013 Elvis Costello <\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">There are about five things to write songs about: I\u2019m leaving you. You\u2019re leaving me. I want you. You don\u2019t want me. I believe in something. Five subjects, and twelve notes. For all that, we musicians do pretty well. \u2013 Elvis Costello <\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">You have to lay yourself on the later to the muse. Because once she stops coming around, you\u2019re really up the creek without a paddle. \u2013 Emmylou Harris<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">Everybody walking around on this planet has had their heart broken. And if they haven\u2019t experienced tragedy, they\u2019re headed for it. \u2013 Emmylou Harris<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">You have to learn compassion and forgiveness. But you still have to hold people to a certain standard \u2013 and hold yourself to that same standard. \u2013 Emmylou Harris<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">God is the big question mark. Heaven is the even bigger question mark. Death is just another question mark. \u2013 Emmylou Harris<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">The only thing I know how to do is make music. \u2013 Emmylou Harris<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">Music is about the only thing left that people don\u2019t fight over. \u2013 Ray Charles<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">The piano is the foundation, and that\u2019s it. \u2013 Ray Charles<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">With singing, the name of the game is to make yourself believable\u2026. You make people feel things, emotions and whatnot. But you got to start with yourself. You got to feel it yourself. If you don\u2019t feel it, how do you expect someone else to? \u2013 Ray Charles<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 As a long-time reader\u00a0of American magazine Esquire, I have always enjoyed the feature \u201cWhat I\u2019ve learned\u201d. \u00a0This is an invaluable\u00a0collection of wisdom from guest columnists on the lessons learned through life. \u00a0 Here are a dozen gems from musicians Elvis Costello, Emmylou Harris and Ray Charles. 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