Ottmar Liebert Quotes

• If you read about a tree, and there is a description, you have to grow that tree in your mind. So that's an active way of looking at media, whereas a movie or a TV will be passive, because they are showing you the tree. In the same way, when somebody sings a song for you, those words get so much in the foreground, that even if you take a minor key of music and then put like happy lyrics to it and people think it's a happy song. So, in a song, you are told what to feel, whereas, in an instrumental music, you get as much out of it as you are willing to put into it.

  Ottmar Liebert

  Canción, Pensamiento, Gente

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• There was a show in Germany called Beat Club, and they had a lot of bands playing live. And I had this master plan, at 11 years old, I wanted to play electric guitar, but I knew... We lived in a small apartment, there was no way that was going to happen. I told my parents I wanted a classical guitar and I wanted to start studying classical guitar. So then a few years later, I think around 16 or so, I started playing electric. But that was my, my plan as an 11 year old. I thought I was so crafty.

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  Thinking, Parent, Study

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• You grow the fastest by getting... adopting ideas and technologies from other cultures. And that has been proven in history, time and time again. Whether you go back to the ancient Persians, or the Romans, or the Ottomans. It's how a culture grows, by incorporating other ideas and going, wow, how did they do this? Oh, I bet you this works with this, and then you can improve it again. So I think any culture that sort of says, no no no, it's just us, nobody gets in anymore, it's the beginning of atrophy, and the rest of the world will just pass you.

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  Technology, Thinking, World

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• Flamenco is Arabic music and rhythms filtered through centuries of gypsies making music. The gypsies themselves came originally from India. And then there is the Caribbean influences... This whole idea that there is any such thing in music that "purity" is bunk, it just doesn't exist. I love that I am playing these rhythms to people. And the next time they hear something that's maybe a little more exotic, I have created a little bridge, and they are going, "Oh, this actually sounds really cool. It reminds me a little bit of that, but it's something different."

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  People, Different, Gypsy

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• I am not really thinking, I am just, working with the music. And people have asked me, why don't you say more, or why do you not have singers, or why don't you sing? I think it's because, if I would have words for what I am doing, I I could write. But I really don't. It's a whole different thing. And I think it's one of the beauty of instrumental music is that it can be background. It can be what people call "easy listening." But it's really one of those things where it's as much as you are willing to give it.

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  Escribir, pensar, dar

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• Cuando llegué a Estados Unidos, todavía quería ser guitarrista eléctrico. Pero me mudé a Santa Fe en el 86. Y decidí que la guitarra de cuerdas de nylon era lo que realmente quería hacer... Y eso realmente cambio mi vida totalmente también... Y Santa Fe es uno de esos lugares realmente inusuales que es una mezcla tan interesante de la cultura. Hay de todo, desde restaurantes hasta música... Recuerdo que uno de los primeros grupos que vi tocando allí, en la parte de atrás de un restaurante, era un banjista, un violinista clásico y un guitarrista flamenco. Y pensé: "¿Qué? Esto es genial".

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  Player, Interesting, Culture

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