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Star quality: I don't know what it is, but I've got it.
Jazz is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.
When there are dogs and music, people have a good time.
A finished work is exactly that, requires resurrection.
Music is for every single person that walks the planet.
I want people to hear the presence of God in the music.
I would have given my right arm to have been a pianist.
I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.
"If you don't make mistakes, you aren't really trying."
Today if something is not worth saying, people sing it.
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
[Advice to Bessie Smith:] Let your soul do the singin'.
Day in, day out. That same old voodoo follows me about.
Mathematics: silent harmonies. Music: sounding numbers.
I think theres something strangely musical about noise.
Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.
For me, the main thing is spontaneity & taking chances.
There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme.
Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.
Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.
I just believe in my Indian, spiritual god and my music.
Music can change the world because it can change people.
To produce music is also in a sense to produce children.
The scratches in Yoko Ono records are moments of relief.
Girls you've gotta know when it's time to turn the page.
There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas.
If only the whole world could feel the power of harmony.
My music relies solely on the feeling. Just the feeling.
Madam, you ask me how I compose. I compose sitting down.
Silence is a sounding thing, To one who listens hungrily
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.
Since day one my thing has always been to play the music
Music is the child of prayer, the companion of religion.
But hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity.
His very foot has music in 't As he comes up the stairs.
If I am not making music, I have no reason for existing.
Bob Marley isn't my name. I don't even know my name yet.
My official cruise ship band name is now A Band On Ship.
Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words
Jazz is so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself.
I liked the Sex Pistols' music. I thought it was superb.
The more you accept herb, the more you accept Rastafari.
When I felt upset and lost, music always had the answer.
Music- what a powerful instrument, what a mighty weapon!
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.
It's much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent.