Lara St. John Quotes

The bottom string is tuned to an open G.

I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.

The chromatic scale is what you use to give the effect of drinking a quinine martini and having an enema simultaneously.

Music assists him in the use of harmonic and mathematical proportion.

Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical.

A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance.

There are only so many notes so there must be only so many melodies.

I could stop and say, Well that was a D minor, G seven, but I really don't want to know that. I just want to know that there's a combination of notes that makes a sound.

There are only twelve tones and they need to be treated carefully.

Nevertheless, one doesn't have time to think, oh, well, this is a quarter tone sharp, or flat.

I'm tired of people disturbing the peace, getting on the radio and sounding a hot mess. If I can tell what the note really is, why let them go to the note they think it is? I've got that mama vibe. I don't look at it with an ego.

A lot of people don't realize that guitar playing is very much like singing or playing any of the glissando-type instruments - you have to do it in tune.

A violin is tuned to a fifth. But a guitar is tuned to a fourth with a one-third middle. It is very perplexing to composers.

They flat their fifths, we drink ours.

Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.

Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.

I played trumpet in the school bands. I learned things I liked to play on my trumpet, but I didn't learn why this note goes with this note and why it produces that sound. Or how to create tension in the composition.

We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself.

I've been living with the minor second all my life and I finally found a way to handle it.

All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.

Everyone who plays the flute should learn singing.

When I was 14 I would pick up my brother's bass guitar, and I would just pound on it, having no idea how to play it.

There's something mathematically satisfying about music: notes fit together and harmony and all that. And mathematics has to do with abstractions and making connections.

Harmony is an obscure and difficult musical science, but most difficult to those who are not acquainted with the Greek language; because it is necessary to use many Greek words to which there are none corresponding in Latin.

Scales played in the correct musical way are very exciting and rewarding.