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'Luke Cage' is a gift. There's so many different ways you can look at it.
In order to play and write, it's unique - you either do one or the other.
The record, as usual, is not good. But on the other hand it is wonderful.
Do not allow the accents in the brass to produce space between the notes.
First of all, ladies and gentlemen, you must forget that you are singers.
In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music.
Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.
I should be sorry if I only entertained them. I wish to make them better.
My advice to composers is, 'Try to reach 90, and everyone will love you.'
I live like a Hottentot. I cannot exchange one sensible word with anyone.
I beg of you... never assume an inner or an outer pose, never a disguise.
In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity
When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.
When I'm worried and I can't sleep I count my blessings instead of sheep.
I thought I'd grow up to be a teacher, or maybe run for political office.
Still for fun, I play the drums, but I don't do much recording with them.
I spent well over a year on the road with Sarah Vaughn. That was amazing.
I’ve come to believe that, fundamentally, art matters more than politics.
If I could choose from all the fathers in the world, Dad, I'd choose you!
It amazes me how little common curtesy people can show when their tested.
Wynton Marsalis is jazzy the same way someone who drives a BMW is sporty.
If you want to kill off a child's interest in music, get them a recorder.
I'd like to feel that whatever I play is a result of whatever I've heard.
In writing music, the structure of each piece is a very important factor.
My sister is as responsible for anyone for giving me good taste in music.
I have been working on this movie [Moana] since before Hamilton happened.
Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.
Why become a second-rate Ravel when you're already a first-rate Gershwin?
Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass?
I have been interested in Irish traditional music for the past few years.
Security is a false God. Begin to make sacrifices to it and you are lost.
Dates and periods are of interest only to the student of musical history.
There are three degrees of comparison: stupido, stupidissimo, and tenore.
I went to lose a jolly, Hour on the trolley, And lost my heart instead...
I have sometimes been told that my music is 'difficult' for the listener.
The difference between a cow and a bean is a bean can begin an adventure.
Ah, but if you have no expectations, You can never have a disappointment.
Hopefully, as a band, it will grow and develop for a good length of time.
I love playing in Fantomas, which is very strict in terms of composition.
She's only pretty in that she has two small black eyes and a good figure.
I believe that whatever comes at a particular time is a blessing from God.
In love's godlike breathing, there's the innermost aspect of the universe.
I was never revolutionary. The only revolutionary in our time was Strauss!
There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead.
I don't believe music can be free unless it has something to be free from.
I learned from my uncle that jazz, like symphony music, was built to last.
Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young.
A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense.
Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his.
The European boys have small ideas but they sure know how to dress 'em up.