Victor Wooten Quotes

#1. Victor Wooten is the Carlos Castaneda of music

Tony Levin

#2. I was fourteen, watching 'The Princess Bride' for the 254321th time, captivated by Wesley and Inigo dueling on the cliff-top. I had never held a sword in my life, but I phoned my mum and said, 'I want to learn to fence!'

V.E Schwab

#3. You are never more than a half-step away from a right note.

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#4. Real? What is real? And tell me, what importance does reality have anyway? Did you learn from the experience? Now, that is important!

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#5. Luckily, Dixie, Ernie, and the two girls, Sissy and Mary Ann, all loved his money. Money was power, no question about it. Sanders remembered how his father used to recite the Golden Rule - he who has the gold makes the rules. And Sanders had the gold. The power. The control. And

Harlan Coben

#6. Evolution is so creative. That's how we got giraffes.

Kurt Vonnegut

#7. The bass is the link between harmony and rhythm. It is the foundation of a band. It is what all the other instruments stand upon, but it is rarely recognized as that.

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#8. It's time for you to take control of your Life and for you to accept that it is you who's in control.

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#9. You can't speak Music with notes alone, but you can speak Music without notes at all!

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#10. If you stopped playing notes, Music would still exist.

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#11. But trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, who is our home.

William Wordsworth

#12. And by the way, if I always tell you the truth, you might start to believe me.

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#13. You can only teach yourself. Until we live in a day where I can physically implant knowledge into your head, I can teach you nothing. I can only show you things.

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#14. When people put you on the pedestal, don't come off it acting like you're humble. Because if they put you up there, that shows how high they can see. Stay there and pull them up, and they'll grow faster.

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#15. Everyone's tried to kill me,' said Megan. 'These days I'm taking it as a sign of affection.

Gary Meehan

#16. Never lose the groove in order to find a note.

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#17. Music comes from the musician, not the instrument.

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#18. Education opens the door for an extraordinary life.

Debasish Mridha

#19. A child playing air-guitar plays no wrong notes.

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#20. Never lose the groove to find a note.

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#21. The awful thing is that you can never be aware of what you are not aware of.

Edward De Bono

#22. In some instances, music is actually better than the spoken word, because it doesn't need to be understood.

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#23. Because I don't need oxygen. I've already come to all my conclusions. I'm just slowly gliding down. Someday I'll be as light as a feather.

Mark Helprin

#24. Quantum mechanics makes absolutely no sense.

Roger Penrose

#25. It's rare that I ever meet a musician who doesn't agree that music is a language. But it's very rare to meet a musician that really treats it like one.

Victor Wooten

#26. You see, most people play louder to get someone's attention, but getting quieter can stop a bull from charging.

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#27. With 'Stardust', I hope what I was doing is giving 30-year-olds and 40-year-olds and 25-year-olds and 60-year-olds a chance to get the same sense of wonder, the same feeling, the same magic, that they got in reading the classic fairy tales as children.

Neil Gaiman

#28. The Bassbone works great in the studio or on the live stage. Throw it in your gig bag and take it wherever you go.

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#29. Steve Lawson is a brilliant musician. I've known about him and listened to him for many years. He may not be one of the most famous bassists but he is definitely one of the most talented.

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#30. Don't compare yourself to other MOMS ... We are all just winging it, just some hide it better than others.

Tanya Masse

#31. From the floor, I see the tops of the Philadelphia skyline out of her window. Staring at it, I realize that the night sky isn't really black, which is the way I've always thought of it. It's actually a dark shade of blue, the darkest possible.

Siobhan Vivian

#32. Lessons are good but there's a lot inside of us that can be pulled out.

Victor Wooten

#33. It was made clear to me that Music is related to everything, especially nature and language, but in order to speak it naturally, I had to first make myself a part of it.

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#34. There is only one reason that you ever fail at anything ... and that is because you eventually change your mind. That's it! ... anything and everything you have ever decided to do, you have succeeded, or will succeed, at doing.

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