Top 35 Wooten Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Wooten

#1. Victor Wooten is the Carlos Castaneda of music

#2. 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.

Victor L. Wooten

#3. As more delivery systems for entertainment producers come on board, you have all these different formats where people are compensated.

Marsha Blackburn

#4. 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.

Victor Wooten

#5. The essential religion is taking the whole responsibility for whatsoever you are. And immediately an insight arises: 'If I am responsible for my suffering, then it is simple, I can drop it. It is my choice. I will not choose it any more.'

Rajneesh

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

Victor L. Wooten

#7. Soften, to connect with your heart and engender a basic attitude of generosity and compassion toward yourself, the archetypal coward.

Pema Chodron

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

Victor L. Wooten

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

Victor L. Wooten

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

Victor Wooten

#11. 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.

Victor L. Wooten

#12. While it is February one can taste the full joys of anticipation. Spring stands at the gate with her finger on the latch.

Patience Strong

#13. If you think I'm going to apologize for being drugged and raped, you have another thing coming.

E.K. Johnston

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

Victor L. Wooten

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

Victor Wooten

#16. It is harder to lie in an interview. A good interview - and it can be polite - is not a one way street like a candidate controlled ad. An interview is not programmed by the candidate and so the candidate can't be exactly sure what will be asked.

Greta Van Susteren

#17. What I'm doing is art - it's low-brow art but there's a magic in that.

Kesha

#18. Darren smiled. "He saved my life and my dog's life. He loves pit bulls." "That's all I need to hear.

Neal Wooten

#19. 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

#20. 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.

Victor L. Wooten

#21. 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.

Victor L. Wooten

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

Victor Wooten

#23. 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.

Victor Wooten

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

Victor Wooten

#25. Naturally, the reader has access only to the events I show and the way I show them, but as has been said, there's generally a good deal of ambiguity in that presentation.

John M. Ford

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

Victor L. Wooten

#27. It's been wonderful for me, and I feel so privileged to have fans that are that loyal.

Jimmy Buffett

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

Victor L. Wooten

#29. Writing songs helped me figure out how to communicate with other people. I finally figured out that if I could express something in a song, I could probably express it in my real life, too.

Sharon Van Etten