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Oh, man, oh how I wish I didn't smoke or drink to reason with my head.
The music business, a lot of times, has a big finesse mentality to it.
External instruments are only extensions of the biological instrument.
Jazz is an idea that is more powerful than the details of its history.
If I practice Cherokee along with backing tracks would it be Chereoke?
She was a singer who had to take every note above A with her eyebrows.
When Brahms is in extra good spirits, he sings, "The grave is my joy".
The value of music is not dazzling yourself and others with technique.
Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.
Music comes from an icicle as it melts, to live again as spring water.
People are like music, some speak the truth and others are just noise.
[At a musical concert:] . . . the music's pure algebra of enchantment.
Don't use your brain to play it, let your feelings guide your fingers.
Technically, I'm not a guitar player, all I play is truth and emotion.
The world is full of sounds. We just don't usually hear them as music.
Iris, if you were a melody...piano melody. I used only the good notes.
I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.
Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.
Dance music is like a virus: it has affected so many different genres.
It's like an act of murder - you play with intent to commit something.
If I'm not saying it in four choruses or less, then I'm not saying it.
How light the touches are that kiss the music from the chords of life!
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
I was in the band as a boy and was taught music and learned to compose.
Jazz is played from the heart. You can even live by it. Always love it.
I've never had a problem with drugs. I've had problems with the police.
You could listen to Woody Guthrie songs and actually learn how to live.
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
Sarah Vaughan was the Charlie Parker of the vocalists during the 1950s.
Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.
I don't think that because l'm a composer I only have to compose music.
People tell us they have been inspired by our music to do great things.
When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something.
If you hit a wrong note, then make it right by what you play afterward.
We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
Watching fish, like listening to music, can distract you in a good way.
I love all kinds of art. I mean, I love sketching and acting and music.
I've been told that my music tells a story, but I don't know the story.
I work very hard at being the best musician I can be because I love it.
There are all kinds of mix tapes. There is always a reason to make one.
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.
Sound is more than just noise. Ordered sound is music. My life is music.
The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.
Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!
My first relationship to any kind of musical situation is as a listener.
Music is enough for a lifetime - but a lifetime is not enough for music.
Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.