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The real innovators did their innovating by just being themselves.
Pain's always been the root of my music. I just write what I feel.
I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.
Love songs last because they are about feelings that don't change.
The trio is the biggest sound you can have with the smallest unit.
You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.
Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.
Playing 'bop' is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.
I love music. It's freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.
I love sex as much as I love music, and I think it's as hard to do.
I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
Most people can't see beauty and love. I see our music as medicine.
Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.
Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilised into time and tune.
Every day the bucket a-go a well, one day the bottom a-go drop out.
I like listening to good music - and I can't stop playing my album.
Invest yourself in everything you do. There's fun in being serious.
If in the after life there is not music, we will have to import it.
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
The greatest respect an artist can pay to music is to give it life.
Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
Men have died for this music. You can't get more serious than that.
A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't.
When I got pretty good I went on the road with a group. We starved.
Once upon a time I was falling in love, now I'm only falling apart.
I have no technical training and am completely uneducated in music.
I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.
The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.
A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side.
I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out.
I stole everything I ever heard, but mostly I stole from the horns.
The first time I heard Bird play, it hit me right between the eyes.
My whole life, my whole soul, my whole spirit is to blow that horn.
God had to create disco music so I could be born and be successful.
I'm not much on gimmicks. I never have been because they don't last.
It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.
The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke.
One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.
There's only two kinds of music I don't like... Country and Western.
We're blues people. And blues never lets tragedy have the last word.
The music that can deepest reach and cure all ill is cordial speech.
As some to Church repair, not for the doctrine, but the music there.
How soar sweet music is, when time is broke, and no proportion kept!
If America has a future, Jazz has a future. The two are inseparable.
I love music, and playing ukulele and singing makes me really happy.
But right now we have an advantage of being the number one in music.
I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.