The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music
By: Victor L. Wooten
4.17
Format: 275 pages, Paperback
From Grammy-winning musical icon and legendary bassist Victor L. Wooten comes The Music Lesson, the…
Want to Read $ 10.99"Never lose the groove in order to find a note."-Victor L. Wooten, The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music
"And by the way, if I always tell you the truth, you might start to believe me."-Victor L. Wooten, The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music
"You can't speak Music with notes alone, but you can speak Music without notes at all!"-Victor L. Wooten, The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music
"Every time you move, and every time you play a note, a piece of yourself is left behind."-Victor L. Wooten, The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music
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1. But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz
By: Geoff Dyer
4.24
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In eight poetically charged vignettes, Geoff Dyer skillfully evokes the music and the men who shape… read more
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2. How Music Works
By: David Byrne
4.00
Format: 345 pages, Hardcover
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"Performers try harder."-David Byrne, How Music Works
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"There's a good chance that you might be inspired by ideas that originate outside of yourself."-David Byrne, How Music Works
3. How to Listen to Jazz
By: Ted Gioia
4.08
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
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"Art and disease proliferate via contagion, and similar conditions favor both."-Ted Gioia, How to Listen to Jazz
"In every sphere of social interaction, that hermeneutic leap—that ability to put yourself in the mind frame of the other—is a virtue and a blessing."-Ted Gioia, How to Listen to Jazz
"When stealing from other players, an older musician wisely advised me, choose a different instrument from your own, and people won’t notice the theft."-Ted Gioia, How to Listen to Jazz
"The work of art always requires us to adapt to it—and in this manner can be distinguished from escapism or shallow entertainment, which instead aims to adapt to the audience, to give the public exact…"-Ted Gioia, How to Listen to Jazz
4. The Musician's Way: A Guide to Practice, Performance, and Wellness
By: Gerald Klickstein
4.10
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
In The Musician's Way, veteran performer and educator Gerald Klickstein combines the latest researc… read more
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5. Miles: The Autobiography
By: Miles Davis , Quincy Troupe
4.18
Format: 306 pages, Paperback
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6. This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
By: Daniel J. Levitin
4.18
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
Whether you load your iPod with Bach or Bono, music has a significant role in your life--even if yo… read more
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7. The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
By: Alex Ross
3.00
Format: 76 pages, Hardcover
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9. The Inner Game of Music
By: W. Timothy Gallwey , Barry Green
4.10
Format: 40 pages,
By the best-selling co-author of Inner Tennis,here's a book designed to help musicians overcome obs… read more
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4.17
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"One of these days, I'm going to astral project myself up into the skies," he boasted. "I'll be going to the stars and the moon. I want to fly and see what's up there. "I want to go up to the sky," he…"-Charles R. Cross, Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix
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11. Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove
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3.47
Format: None pages, Hardcover
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12. The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music
By: Victor L. Wooten
4.17
Format: 275 pages, Paperback
From Grammy-winning musical icon and legendary bassist Victor L. Wooten comes The Music Lesson, the… read more
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"Never lose the groove in order to find a note."-Victor L. Wooten, The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music
"And by the way, if I always tell you the truth, you might start to believe me."-Victor L. Wooten, The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music
"You can't speak Music with notes alone, but you can speak Music without notes at all!"-Victor L. Wooten, The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music
"Every time you move, and every time you play a note, a piece of yourself is left behind."-Victor L. Wooten, The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music
13. The Art of Practicing: A Guide to Making Music from the Heart
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3.37
Format: None pages, Paperback
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14. Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art
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18. How Music Works: The Science and Psychology of Beautiful Sounds, from Beethoven to the Beatles and Beyond
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4.02
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
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19. Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
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3.92
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
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20. Guitar Zero: The New Musician and the Science of Learning
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3.75
Format: 166 pages,
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21. Beneath the Underdog
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3.42
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22. Art Of Possibility
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23. Syd Barrett: A Very Irregular Head
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3.93
Format: 214 pages, Paperback
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24. Zen Guitar
By: Philip Toshio Sudo
3.32
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25. The History of Jazz
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4.67
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26. What to Listen for in Music
By: Alan Rich , Aaron Copland , William Schuman
3.62
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
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27. My Effin' Life
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4.58
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
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4.04
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"Turning something from an idea into a reality can make it seem smaller. It changes from unearthly to earthly. The imagination has no limits. The physical world does. The work exists in both."-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
29. Sonic Life: A Memoir
By: Thurston Moore
3.81
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
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30. This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You
By: Susan Rogers
3.82
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
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31. How to Write One Song: Loving the Things We Create and How They Love Us Back
By: Jeff Tweedy
4.22
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There are few creative acts more mysterious and magical than writing a song. But what if the goal w… read more
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"To all of the songs like windows, open just enough for us to make our escape, and to all of the songs like windows, closed and clear enough in a dim light to see our own reflection and be reminded of…"-Jeff Tweedy, How to Write One Song: Loving the Things We Create and How They Love Us Back
"When I'm on stage, my experience often goes something like this: Blankness . . . bliss . . . blankness . . . twinkle of awareness that rocking has been achieved . . . bliss . . . Voice of Observing E…"-Jeff Tweedy, How to Write One Song: Loving the Things We Create and How They Love Us Back
