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Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education.
I love classical music. It has left a major mark on my playing.
To play great music, you must keep your eyes on a distant star.
What is my definition of jazz? "Safe sex of the highest order."
There are still so many beautiful things to be said in C major.
You gotta love livin', baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass.
If it hadn't been for Jazz, there wouldn't be no rock and roll.
Only the drum is confident, it thinks the world has not changed
In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain.
May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.
I heard someone say that all black people got rhythm. Bullshit.
Madonna is closer to organised prostitution than anything else.
I'm not listening for song ideas; I'm listening for soul ideas.
Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.
Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.
Music is a pastime, a relaxation from more serious occupations.
The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at.
We don't play to be seen. I'm addicted to music, not audiences.
People who have memorized your songs-how can you not love them?
I do but sing because I must; and pipe but as the linnets sing.
Music is the best way that I can communicate with other people.
Man, as long as people want to hear Jazz, I'll give it to them.
A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't.
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
Music has always been my passion for as long as I can remember.
Do you think I give a damn about your and your pathetic violin?
Blues is to jazz what yeast is to bread--without it, it's flat.
Liszt's so-called piano music is nothing but Chopin and brandy.
Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent.
Only the two of us together flying high upon the wings of love.
When I die, bury me on my stomach and let the world kiss my ass.
Drugs is like getting up and having a cup of tea in the morning.
There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.
It is in learning music that many youthful hearts learn to love.
Count Basie was college, but Duke Ellington was graduate school.
I got into the soul music, but I wanted to rock. I was a rocker.
Poetry is very similar to music, only less notes and more words.
We were always going to dump him when we found a decent drummer.
I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.
You have to practice improvisation, let no one kid you about it!
There is no real coming and going, For what is going but coming?
Music allows the great opportunity to play with people you love.
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.
When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy.
Sugar is not so sweet to the palate as sound to the healthy ear.
Just like music, sports elevates us to new levels of achievment.
What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.