Like to start off 2013 with a few positive "notes" here:

The quotes below were collected over the years from my books and albums and real life and stored in my head.

Enjoy.

"There is nothing to it.  You have only to hit the right notes at the right time, and the instrument plays itself."
   - Johann Sebastian Bach, referring to the keyboard

"Flattering words, praises and cries of "Bravisimo" pay neither postmasters nor landlords.  You must not lose sight of your main object, which is to make money."
  - Leopold Mozart to his son Wolfgang Amadeus

"When you play, never mind who listens to you."
  - Robert Schumann

"Play always as if in the presence of a master."
  - Rober Schumann

"Everything there is to know about playing the piano can be taught in half an hour, I'm convinced of it."
  - Glenn Gould

"There are only two kinds of music - good music and bad music."
  - Louis Armstrong

"One thing I like about jazz is that I don't know what's going to happen next."
  - Bix Beiderbecke

"Let's put in three pickups.  Two is good, but three will kill them."
  - Leo Fender launches the Stratocaster, 1954

"I played so well I surprised even myself!"
  - Juan Mercadal, classical guitarist, Professor and Chairman of the Guitar Dept, University of Miami, 1965-1998

"Music is your only friend."
  - Jim Morrison, in 'When the Music's Over'

"American Music is not necessarily music from America.  I think of it as the music you hear in the air, on the air, and in the streets; blues, soul, country, rock, religious music, traffic, crowds, street sounds and field sounds, the sound of people and silence."
  - Michael Bloomfield, liner notes to Electric Flag's 'A Long Time Comin'

"This was how we were playing then – but things change.  Don't they?"
  - Ian Anderson, liner notes to Jethro Tull's 'This Was'

"A bad bass player is better than no bass player at all."
  - Paul McCartney

"There are only about 100 people in the world who understand our music."
  - John Lennon, in the original one-sentence-quote review of 'Magical Mystery Tour' by Rolling Stone Magazine

"I had these dreams that something was gonna happen, seeing the numbers 1966 in my sleep, so I was just passing time until then."
  - Jimi Hendrix

"You'll never hear surf music again."
  - Jimi Hendrix, in 'Third Stone From the Sun'

"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."
  - George Bernard Shaw, writer and music critic

"Bosses fire ya, pets die on ya, wimmen leave ya, but hell, ya get yerself a good geetar and it'll love ya forever!"
  - Unknown