To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.

School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians

If you've lost your faith in love and music, Oh the end won't be long...

If songs were lines in a conversation, the situation would be fine . . .

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

Music is indeed the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

It is a mistake to think that the price of my art has become easy to me.

After theology I give to music the highest place and the greatest honor.

music is a missionary effort to colonize earth for imperialistic heaven.

If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

If everyone started off the day singing, just think how happy they'd be.

The history of music is mortal, but the idiocy of the guitar is eternal.

An entertainer pleases others while an artist only has to please himself.

I mix up all styles on my albums because that is what music is about now.

I don't like my language watered down, I don't like my edges rounded off.

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

Regardless of what you play, the biggest thing is keeping the feel going.

I should be sorry if I only entertained them. I wish to make them better.

Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.

An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.

Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead.

African music, though very old, is always being rediscovered in the West.

You know what music is - a harmonic connection between all living beings.

Do not allow the accents in the brass to produce space between the notes.

I'd like to feel that whatever I play is a result of whatever I've heard.

If someone has been escaping reality, I don't expect him to dig my music.

I'm basically a music nerd, especially when it comes to electronic music.

My mom would have liked it that I patterned myself more after Jimmy Reed.

The blessing of this music is that it is fun to do and it keeps evolving.

Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts.

In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music.

Dance music will always be around. People around the world love to dance.

Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass?

I got rhythm, I got music, I got my man- Who could ask for anything more?

The important thing is to feel your music, really feel it and believe it.

If you play a tune and a person don't tap their feet, don't play the tune.

Everyone who hears our music loves it, but how many people get to hear it?

I've had the pleasure of playing with the baddest Jazz cats on the planet.

Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world.

That's where I get my whole music theory from, my pops and my grandfather.

Within reasonable limits, a professional player should keep busy at music.

There are a lot of things I'm proud of, but the proudest have yet to come.

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

But I'm also a music lover, and I'll always try a lot of different things.

he signed his work .. you could always tell when it was Herb Ellis playing

I got more publicity for not doing a festival than for doing the festival.

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

Good music is timeless, and if you create with that honesty, it will last.

The guitar is the easiest instrument to play and the hardest to play well.

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