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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!
The day you open your mind to music, you're halfway to opening your mind to life.
Flowers and plants are silent presences. They nourish every sense except the ear.
Sometimes I think I was making music through the wrong end of a magnifying glass.
Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs
There is no phase of the Italian mind that has not found expression in its music.
We never write anything with themes. We just write the same rubbish all the time.
...the moment of passage from disturbance into harmony is that of intensest life.
Kenny Burrell is overall the greatest guitarist in the world and he's my favorite.
Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.
Don't tell people you are broke. Guilting fans into buying your music never works.
Light quirks of music, broken and uneven,Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n.
Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?
All day long, they lie in the sun, and when the sun goes down, they lie some more.
notes fly so much farther than words. There is no other way to reach the infinite.
Music is a universal thing with no boundaries, whether you play inside or outside.
You can't be in the music business as long as "Steve and Edie" have, if you stink.
I think I had it in the back of my mind that I wanted to sound like a dry martini.
The Beach Boys are not a superstar group. The music is the superstar of the group.
Will you take me as I am? Strung out on another man...California, I'm comin' home.
Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.
Jazz has the ability to absorb & transform influences from diverse musical styles.
The whole thing of being in music is not to control it but to be swept away by it.
Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America.
When I don't like a piece of music, I make a point of listening to it more closely
I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think.
Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
And at dawn, the drums still beat on the sleepless plain like an unstoppable heart.
Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music.
O Black and unknown bards of long ago, How came your lips to touch the sacred fire?
I'm thankful For the blessing And the lessons that I've learned with you By my side
Music is expression of harmony in sound. Love is the expression of harmony in life.
My dream is to do whatever I want without any interference from the record company.
The music was as much a gift as sunshine, as rain, as any blessing ever prayed for.
One of the great moments of my life was when I could write musician on my passport.
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
What makes bebop legitimate is the fact that when it was done, it was illegitimate.
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
If I didn't have some kind of education, then I wouldn't be able to count my money.
Every man is full of music; but it is not every man that knows how to bring it out.
The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
I've always felt that blues, rock 'n' roll and country are just about a beat apart.
There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is. ~William Shakespeare
Starting in the middle of a musical sentence and moving in both directions at once.
You don't have to understand Korean to understand the music, the visuals, the vibe.
Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.
Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking.
The world thinks that music is a commercial commodity. I'm glad that is not my code.
I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music.