Brett Somers Quotes

The bottom string is tuned to an open G.

Register is very important. Music sounds best in a certain register.

I don't know one note from another.

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

I really don't know anything about music. I don't really listen to it. I don't know anything about the history of music.

And I've made it a choice on my records that sometimes I leave the breath or the trailing note that sometimes falls into a flat or a sharp.

For me, the only thing that makes one scale different from another is not the starting note; it's the separation of the intervals.

I could live inside a G major chord, with Grace, if she was willing.

Take but degree away, untune that string, and hark, what discord follows!

I didn't take lessons, and I don't know my scales.

I don't know any Beatles songs. My dad never listened to Elvis or Sting or Bowie. Any band name that's on a t-shirt, I probably won't know their music, like AC/DC or whatever. I don't know what that is. As a kid, I would sing along to artists like Tania Maria.

To me it's no accident that all the symphony orchestras around the world tune up to the note A. And A is 440 cycles, except in Germany where it's 444. But the universe is 450 cycles. So what I'm trying to say is, I think it's God's voice, melody especially. Counterpoint, retrograde inversion, harmony... that's the science and the craft.

I've always liked the effect of having somebody in there who hadn't the faintest idea what was going on.

Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical.

When I was 15, I did not know nothing about what concerned the world of music.

I don't know nothing about no jungle and bass.

Maybe if I knew music I couldn't do what I am doing.

You start way down on a low B flat on the tuba and you have a chromatic scale; you can match the colours all the way up, till you get to the top of the trumpet.

When you don't understand something, you often laugh.

The sensitive ear of the musician detects a certain musical note in every city which is different from that of another city. He hears in each little brook a new melody, and to him the sound of wind in the treetops of different forests give a varying sound.

For my part, it was Greek to me.

I understand that transposing a song a half step can effect the believability of a lyric.

I liked things better when I didn't understand them.

The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it.

I don't understand anything about America's culture.