John McLaughlin Citas

• Sólo en la espontaneidad podemos ser quienes realmente somos.

  John McLaughlin

  Jazz, Spontaneity

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• I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.

  John McLaughlin

  Music, School, Mean

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• El punto de trabajar y practicar toda tu vida es para que estés listo cuando llegue ese momento; cuando llegue la inspiración, estás listo para estar a disposición de la inspiración.

  John McLaughlin

  Inspiration, Musician, Life Is

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• Music speaks from spirit to spirit and in that sense you could call it a true spiritual language.

  John McLaughlin

  Spiritual, Musician, Language

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• Cuando escucho a un gran músico, puedo sentir su vida dentro de la música.

  John McLaughlin

  Funny, Inspiring, Musician

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• If I can get out of the way, if I can be pure enough, if I can be selfless enough, and if I can be generous and loving and caring enough to abandon what I have in my own preconceived silly notions of what I think I am - and become truly who in fact I am, which is really just another child of God - then the music can really use me. And therein lies my fulfillment. That's when the music starts to happen.

  John McLaughlin

  Children, Lying, Silly

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• La música que toca el aspecto trascendental de un ser humano está reservada a un público marginal

  John McLaughlin

  Transcendental, Aspect, Audience

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• You can have the greatest player in terms of mastering an instrument and you could be yawning your head off when you hear them. So, it's not what you do, but the way you're doing it and in the end that's all that we have

  John McLaughlin

  Player, Yawning, Way

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• For me, rhythm is a type of divine mathematics in a way. No matter where you're from, we can all understand the mathematics of rhythm. I try to apply this mathematical thinking to my playing.

  John McLaughlin

  Thinking, Trying, Matter

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• Interplay and interaction are the integral parts of music - they're as important as the notes.

  John McLaughlin

  Important, Musician, Notes

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• I practice all the scales. Everyone should know lots of scales. Actually, I feel there are only scales. What is a chord, if not the notes of a scale hooked together?

  John McLaughlin

  Guitar, Practice, Together

  "The Guitar Handbook: A Unique Source Book for the Guitar Player - Amateur or Professional, Acoustic or Electrice, Rock, Blues, Jazz, or Folk". Book by Ralph Denyer (p. 114), 1982.

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• The mathematics of rhythm are universal. They don't belong to any particular culture.

  John McLaughlin

  Culture, Mathematics, Rhythm

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• Spirituality is worthless if it's not practical. Music is my work. I am a musician.

  John McLaughlin

  Musician, Spirituality, Music Is

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• My entire life is dedicated to music, and at my age, that makes a lot of years! But all the work and dedication is only that I'm able to forget myself and let the music do the 'talking.'

  John McLaughlin

  Dedication, Talking, Years

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• There are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial.

  John McLaughlin

  Two, Musical, Kind

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• En cierto modo, los discos son como pinturas. En lugar de utilizar pinturas y pinceles, utilizamos sonidos e instrumentos.

  John McLaughlin

  Way, Sound, Use

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• I'm never trying to preach to anybody with my music, but I'm aware of the universal nature of the human experience and I try to reach out and connect with people in that manner.

  John McLaughlin

  People, Trying, Human Experience

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• Sólo quiero seguir explorando la música y espero que los pedidos sigan llegando y pueda seguir haciendo crecer el lado interior y exterior de mi vida.

  John McLaughlin

  Order, Growing, Want

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• I believe everybody is spiritual and no one is any more spiritual than anyone else.

  John McLaughlin

  Spiritual, Believe, I Believe

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• The music dictates to me which instrument I use. I'm basically waiting for orders as it were.

  John McLaughlin

  Order, Waiting, Use

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• Everyone can lock into the rhythm on a tune. It's organic in nature. It connects the band as a whole and connects the band to the audience.

  John McLaughlin

  Tunes, Locks, Band

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• Cuando abres caja tras caja de tebeos viejos y TODOS son "Archie", has sufrido un trauma del que es difícil recuperarse jamás.

  John McLaughlin

  Boxes, Trauma, Difficult

  Source: www.comicosity.com

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• Absolutely, all guitars are different. You can go into a store and grab five guitars, all the same model, and even though they look identical they're not identical. They play differently, they feel a bit different and they sound slightly different.

  John McLaughlin

  Guitar, Play, Looks

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• Question: Does it frost Jackson, Jesse Jackson, that someone like Obama, who fits the stereotype blacks once labeled as an Oreo -- a black on the outside, a white on the inside -- that an Oreo should be the beneficiary of the long civil rights struggle which Jesse Jackson spent his lifetime fighting for?

  John McLaughlin

  Struggle, Fighting, Rights

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• No soy diferente de ti, del tipo de la calle de al lado o del otro lado del mundo, todos estamos conectados de alguna manera y espero que mi música pueda integrar ese sentimiento de conexión humana.

  John McLaughlin

  Guy, Feelings, Different

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