Charlie Musselwhite famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

To me, the harmonica is like a voice.
-- Charlie Musselwhite

#Voice #Harmonicas
It is secular spiritual music, the gospel blues. It's music from the heart instead of the head.
-- Charlie Musselwhite

#Spiritual #Heart #Secular
The harmonica is the most voice-like instrument, you can make it wail, feel happy, or cry. It's like singing the blues without words.
-- Charlie Musselwhite

#Voice #Singing #Cry
Sometimes the spirit is playing you. I call it following the will of the music, and when that feeling shows up, you just go with it. It's almost like I'm a bystander. I'm watching this happening, and it's not a mental process. It's just spontaneous.
-- Charlie Musselwhite

#Bystanders #Feelings #Spirit
Some players, they have all their licks memorized. They think about what they're going to play, but I try to think about what not to play. Tone and phrasing, that's what's important - less is more. The feeling, that's the thing.
-- Charlie Musselwhite

#Thinking #Player #Feelings
I love the music, but being on the road ain't a piece of cake, but it is real rewarding. You've got to - all those people can't come to my house, so I've got to go out on the road and play for them.
-- Charlie Musselwhite

#Real #Cake #Play
When (Big) Walter was in the right mood, he could be the most ferocious, the most inventive, the most dangerous harp player I ever heard.
-- Charlie Musselwhite

#Player #Mood #Harps

I love the voice - itâ€™s the most perfect instrument ever heard. Itâ€™s God given.
Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.
Film is very much a universal and common voice, and we can't limit it to one particular culture.
When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
To me, the harmonica is like a voice.
I can play the harmonica with my nose.
Have you heard Alanis Morisette trying to play the harmonica? She doesn't know how to play the harmonica. Well guess what, Alanis, I INVENTED the 'don't-know-how-to-play-harmonica-harmonica-solo.'
I was messing around with the harmonica... but I was 13 before I got a real good note out of it.
In them days I just as soon died -- except for my harmonica. It was like a friend who didn't give a damn if I could see or not.

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