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It's easy to be a one-hit wonder. It's hard to stay relevant for more than a few years.
I used to perform all the time but I haven't performed in New York in a very long time.
If you think I wear the cloak of filth, then let me tell you baby, I wear it real good.
It's about the people, who have stopped believing because the cup of evil has run over.
Somehow I suspect that if Shakespeare were alive today, he might be a jazz fan himself.
I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena.
Opera is a musical scenery, a musical atmosphere in which the characters move and talk.
Music might be defined as a system of proportions in the service of a spiritual impulse
Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.
A full cup of wine at the right time is worth more than all the kingdoms of this earth!
The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content.
If I'm writing songs for a country-Western picture, I have to know about country music.
The basic problem with young people entering show business is that they are in a hurry.
There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens.
I'm like a child trying to do everything, say everything and be everything all at once.
Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. No other path, no other way, no day but today.
Since God has given me a cheerful heart, He will forgive me for serving Him cheerfully.
I try to talk as little as possible, unless I see something that I might disagree with.
I have composed several pieces which are performed outdoors, not only in the auditoria.
If you already have a piece of music ingrained in your body, why would you not play it?
Your own music comes out of your head and emotions, but it's not etched in your system.
If I'm not a jazz player all the time, I've at least been cued in to what I do by jazz.
I got to fall in love. I got to win a war. I got to write words that inspired a nation.
It's an enormous relief to go to work and be an actor and not be worried about writing.
Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
To understand what music has to be, you have to live for music. Who's ready to do that?
Why should we not enter into our inheritance in the church as well as the concert hall?
If you think that the brass is not blowing loud enough, mute it by a couple of degrees.
With videotaping, on the second generation you're already losing some of the freshness.
People Expect Something New From Me All The Time.And That's Good It Keeps Me On The Edge
I have too many responsibilities and principles. There's no time for 'guilty' pleasures.
When I did 'Venice Dawn,' there were times where people would cry after listening to it.
Change the sound. Make people rethink what they're doing. That's what I really wanna do.
I don't really care very much if I don't think that the critics really understand music.
I am a very curious person, not just about my life in music. I love arts and creativity.
Indeed, man only exists insofar as he expresses himself. Music does it in musical ideas.
I'm perplexed, though, by your application of the term 'negative' to my figural imagery.
When I'm writing instrumental music, I try to find musical and non-musical inspirations.
Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that.
I'm a worthless check, a total wreck, a flop But if baby I'm the bottom, you're the top.
The greatest thing you'll ever learn is to love and be loved, just to love and be loved.
Pray to God that He might create is us a clean heart and renew a right spirit within us.
There's an awful lot of resources that can be drawn upon in an improvised music concert.
A lot of journalists say, "Tell us about the '80s." Nobody wants to know about the '70s!
I have an Otari with a Korg T2 Midi synthesizer, a drum machine and a few effects units.
I got tired of different drum sounds so you buy different effects for more manipulation.
CDs are not as good as vinyl, and you buy one in the supermarket along with the yoghurt.