“They teach you there’s a boundary line to music. But, man, there’s no boundary line to art” —Charlie Parker
Eye music
On my turntable
How high C
Music is all of a sudden much more colorful —Pharrell Williams
In fine arts, when you make a painting, it’s just a painting. But if you make a painting in the entertainment industry, it can be an album cover or a t-shirt or a logo —Andrew W.K.
Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there —Miles Davis
Human life is a combination of tragedy and comedy. The shapes and designs that surround us are the music accompanying this tragedy and this comedy —Alvar Aalto
The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers —Matsuo Basho
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears —Gertrude Stein
He has Van Gogh’s ear for music —Billy Wilder
Every song is like a painting —Dick Dale
There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres —Pythagoras
Colour does not make so much difference. Look at the Bach Chaconne: There is not one dynamic mark in the whole Bach Chaconne. Colours do not make so much difference —Ruggiero Ricci
I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool —Bonnie Raitt
The true musician is to bring light into people’s hearts —Bobby Mcferrin
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GODSLAUGH.ME 
thought you might like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AesJK_WhgPI&t=4s
Thank you for the jazzy thought, Barbara.
Ich bin eine Schwingung! (hope google got that right. 🙂
yup you got it – and the swinging philosopher is tasty, too me thinks- became a Jesuit at 40 – glutton for punishment?
‘I am an oscillation’ is what I typed into google translate. On their turntable, it seems, I am a ‘swinger,’ like your tasty philosopher. Perhaps gaining merit in translation. :).
you are too multi-faceted for me herd Cog (hear) – google’s translation is perfect German, It speaks of wavelength or frequency or some such. I called him swinging because of going with the flow of being and jazz. Tasty I call him in creative use of the English language because he speaks of ANW as his Leib-und-Magen Philosoph which a sensual and eccentric way of saying he likes him beyond the academic pleasantries, has a gut feeling about him… and i translated that into tasty – lol – I don’t know about merit, but certainly fun, just like the jazz…
Ah! 🙂
I’ve heard tell that hummingbirds were so named because though they love a good melody, they are terrible with lyrics. And while that may be apropos of nothing, it was the first thing that popped in my head. Well done, E Sum, as always.
Thank you, Geo. For good melody only, hummingbirds beat parrots, wings down. For good lyrics, too, I listen to the elder George Raymond on Trefology, who seems the younger in some ways. 🙂
You seem to have made a distinctive turn in your posts and I like it a lot, both poems and paintings.
vibrant art
flip side poems
jazzed spirit
Thanks for the encouragment, LuAnne. Btw, there is a link in another comment on this post, from Barbara S., to a video of a very jazzed spirit that you might like, too.
Thanks, I will check that out.
Thank you for the haiku that captured the spirit. 🙂