Ian Lesnevski

“Growl it, smear it, flat it, sharp it, do anything you want to it.”
― Ted Gioia, How to Listen to Jazz

“He’d surely punish me if I cried.”
― Mariah Carey, The Meaning of Mariah Carey

“Once again Tommy and I would sit in silence, after all was said and done.”
― Mariah Carey, The Meaning of Mariah Carey

“With the generous variety of chords available in the major, melodic minor, and diminished scales, you can convey a wide range of emotions. You can easily express happiness and calm (major 7th chords); triumph (major triads); darkness, sadness or mystery (almost anything from melodic minor harmony); tension (dominant 7th chords); extreme tension (diminished chords); and more. With the whole-tone scale, the emotional range is largely limited to enchantment, or as one musician not-so-cynically suggested, “Bambi emerging from the forest at dawn.”
― Mark Levine, The Jazz Theory Book