Jake Holmes famous quotes

I throw down a lot on paper and on tape. Sometimes while I'm practicing on the guitar, I'll think of a song.
-- Jake Holmes

#Song #Thinking #Guitar

At a certain point, I got used to writing on demand. I developed a habit of writing like I hired myself! I also like to write about things that affect me emotionally.
-- Jake Holmes

#Writing #Demand #Habit

Many of the African musicians are well-schooled and well-versed...what they do takes a high level of musicianship.
-- Jake Holmes

#Musician #Levels #Wells

I really like world music. I used to think it was simple but it's far from that.
-- Jake Holmes

#Simple #Thinking #World

Everybody can perform, there are so many outlets. Musicians are no longer limited. In the past, the record companies made most of the money. I for one am not sorry to see them fade away.
-- Jake Holmes

#Sorry #Past #Musician

Most true musicians don't do it for the money, they do it because they love it. When I did slam poetry, it was a great way for me to express myself, I loved it.
-- Jake Holmes

#Musician #Way #Slam

Don't expect to make a living on it. Be able to hammer a nail or do retail, doing your music on the side!
-- Jake Holmes

#Nails #Retail #Hammers

Once upon a time, when men and women hurtled through the air on metal wings, when they wore webbed feet and walked on the bottom of the sea, learning the speech of whales and the songs of the dolphins, when pearly-fleshed and jewelled apparitions of Texan herdsmen and houris shimmered in the dusk on Nicaraguan hillsides, when folk in Norway and Tasmania in dead of winter could dream of fresh strawberries, dates, guavas and passion fruits and find them spread next morning on their tables, there was a woman who was largely irrelevant, and therefore happy.

If you and I shall, like the believing shepherds, watch and long for His appearing, one day we, too, shall hear a music grander and sweeter even than the song of angels, when the great Composer shall transpose all the strains of earth from the minor into the major, when the wail of nature shall give way to the glad harmony of the everlasting jubilee.

For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs. Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.

A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.

Truth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that weren't hits. You have a career, the reason why we're still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.

I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.

I have no secrets; all of these things have been discussed at length in guitar magazines over the years but are far too elaborate to cover in one article.

What made me want to play guitar was that painting of Wings in concert in the gatefold of Wings Over America. It looked so exciting... I wanted to be part of it.