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Musicians have to suffer to a certain degree in order to obtain their outlet.
Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?
Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.
All that I've played, all that I've sung, I couldn't have done any other way.
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
I still believe that music is one of the greatest gifts that God gave to man.
Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano.
I still insist that American performers are the best performers in the world.
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it.
I never set out to be part of a genre, because I listen to all types of music.
Music does bring people together. It allows us to experience the same emotions
Then you've a hunch what the music meant . . . hunger and night and the stars.
I was just going more for what I've always been influenced by, European music.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: I don't think music should be free.
Change is the only constant, whether it's in music, culture, dance or fashion.
The most necessary, most difficult and principal thing in music, that is time.
Jazz is something that you have to feel. It's something that you have to live.
Music doesn't argue, discuss, or quarrel. It just breathes the air of freedom.
There are only two things worth aiming for, good music and a clean conscience.
Hearing Andres Segovia in person was quite a revelation ... It was a knockout.
Come, sing now, sing; for I know you sing well; I see you have a singing face.
I liked Bach played the way people expect Chopin to be played, and vice versa.
Music is powerful. As people listen to it, they can be affected. They respond.
I still love the whole history of Jazz. The old things sound better than ever.
All music is is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments.
Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.
A prophet is not without honor except in his own country among his own people.
The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful.
Elgar's first symphony is the musical equivalent of St Pancras Railway Station.
And as the players tried to take the field, the Marching Band refused to yield.
Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.
True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time.
I am viewed as the Negro who has gone outside of the categories assigned to me.
All I can do is make good music and make it for the fans, not for anybody else.
Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
Today's parents grew up with the silly notion that music was meant to be heard.
Pop music follows the evolution of society in general: Everything moves faster.
If everyone liked what I did, I probably wouldn't be playing anything of depth.
When you are listening to music it is better to cover your eyes than your ears.
My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.
Music is something I really have a need to do - I don't seem to be able to stop
Worship is an inward feeling and outward action that reflects the worth of God.
I truly believe that listening to music can transform you into a better person.
I wonder what an agent would do if he had to travel with the band he's booking.
If you keep your head in the sand, you don't know where the kick's coming from.
Whether I was in my body or out of my body as I wrote it I know not. God knows.
I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.
If you're going to make a mistake, make it loud so everybody else sounds wrong.