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Before I compose a piece, I walk round it several times, accompanied by myself.
Skylark Have you anything to say to me? Won't you tell me where my love can be?
Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.
A 'mistake' is beside the point, for once anything happens it authentically is.
I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out.
It's actually come as quite a shock to learn just how many people don't like me.
I started playing jazz by slowing down Tal Farlow records and analyzing his runs
I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.
Jazz is neither specific repertoire, nor academic exercise... but a way of life.
Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating.
Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
She poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit.
Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.
I cannot say what I think is right about Music. I only know the rightness of it.
There's something about the Strat's shape that is at once masculine and feminine
So much of Jazz doesn't have an audience other than music students or musicians.
Old music is the same as new music - it's just a different way of delivering it.
At last my love has come along. My lonely days are over and life is like a song.
Change is always happening. That's one of the wonderful things about Jazz music.
The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can't sing.
I've always been heavily influenced by classical music, mostly by baroque music.
Yes, death is strong, but look you, the strongest, Stronger is music than death.
The foundations of any subject may be taught to anybody at any age in some form.
With This Ring I give my all to you Now and my whole life through With this ring
Time to write and sing, to laugh, to listen, to discover, to cry, to love music.
The day of the great Jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is over.
Our basic audience begins with creaking elderly types of twenty-three and above.
The greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out.
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
Only become a musician if there is absolutely no other way you can make a living.
People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least while the music lasts.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
Ignore all hatred and criticism. Live for what you create, and die protecting it.
I don't mean to sound like a cheap prostitute, but you can call me what you like.
You should never listen to someone practice. That is their work and theirs alone.
If you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night!
I don't see why I can't listen to Miles Davis and Slipknot in the same afternoon.
Music is either good or bad, and it's got to be learned. You got to have balance.
I always make sure that the lid over the keyboard is open before I start to play.
There's only one type of music and that's good music, no matter what genre it is.
Chopin--Two embalmers at work upon a minor poetthe scent of tuberosesAutumn rain.
When you get to the top, don't forget to send the elevator down for the next guy.
I like the beauty of physics, nature is beautiful, it is my second soul to music.
If music could be translated into human speech, it would no longer need to exist.
Music is everything that one listens to with the intention of listening to music.
In rock & roll heaven, there ARE drum solos, but only the drummers can hear them.
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.