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Trying to explain music is like trying to dance architecture.
The hippest thing you can do is not play at all. Just listen.
I'm kind of insane when it comes to music, a little obsessed.
Still, there is a calm, pure harmony, and music inside of me.
Music is a way to dream together and go to another dimension.
I always like to get local music when I'm in another country.
It's the singer not the song that makes the music move along.
Jazz is letting everybody do his or her thing with the music.
As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes.
I've been told that nobody sings the word 'hunger' like I do.
Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
Jimi Hendrix was the most exciting guitarist I've ever heard.
There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.
When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star.
There's nothing like music to relieve the soul and uplift it.
There is no truer truth obtainable by Man than comes of music
I love retro culture. I love retro games; I love retro music.
Jazz is a beautiful woman whose older brother is a policeman.
The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial.
I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing.
I'm very glad to have met you. I like your playing very much.
What does music mean to you? What would you do without music?
The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth.
There really is no such thing as art. There are only artists.
Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.
There's a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell.
Old music used to mean something. There is none of that today.
A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.
A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.
If you don't like Louis Armstrong, you don't know how to love.
You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?
Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.
Doesn't that fool know I recorded that song because I like it?
To help with knowing if you're good or not, you need a mentor.
I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music.
We all love musical architecture; there's no doubt about that.
People haven't always been there for me, but music always has.
I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.
Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do.
Joao Gilberto on guitar could read a newspaper and sound good.
If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on?
The most important thing in music is what is not in the notes.
For me, the great thing about music is that anybody can do it.
My mother played piano so we always had music around the house
Well if I could play like Wynton, I wouldn't play like Wynton.
I must be true to myself within my music or I would be a liar.
The immoral profession of musical criticism must be abolished.
I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.