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Whenever new ideas emerge, songs soon follow, and before long the songs are leading.
Nothing else will ever capture the democratic process in sound as perfectly as Jazz.
A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.
We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters.
Be aroused by poetry; structure yourself with propriety, refine yourself with music.
I don't have a definition of Jazz. You're just supposed to know it when you hear it.
I'm all in favor of getting grants for musicians. Or any other good brand of Scotch.
The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.
The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen.
The difference between noise and music is in what the musician does with the sounds.
I am attracted only to music which I consider to be better than it can be performed.
My music is the spiritual expression of what I am: my faith, my knowledge, my being.
The audience should feel they are hearing the future, that is arriving just on time.
LANGUAGE, n. The music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's treasure.
When you're happy you enjoy the music, but when you're sad you understand the lyrics.
As in an organ from one blast of wind To many a row of pipes the soundboard breathes.
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
I can chase you, and I can catch you, but there is nothing I can do to make you mine.
I always wanted to play music and have it be my career and knew this by the age of 12
A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.
The silence between two notes is as beautiful and meaningful as the notes themselves.
Barney Kessel is definitely the best guitar player in this world, or any other world.
Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.
Folk music usually romanticises the road. 'Back in my Body' tells the opposite story.
Solos are like sex, so it's surprising to me that there aren't more guys playing them
You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
My music is the spiritual expression of what I am - my faith, my knowledge, my being.
Music should be made to make people forget their problems, if only for a short while.
Anybody can do anything, it's up to themselves. All it takes is the right intentions.
If you want to please the critics, don't play too loud, too soft, too fast, too slow.
Through music we may wander where we will in time, and find friends in every century.
The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
Live for yourself and you will live in vain; Live for others, and you will live again.
I had to listen to the classical music because it calms me down, calms my nerves down.
If you're only a fan of the old music, that music's gonna wind up sounding even older.
Monk encouraged me to emancipate the drums from their subservient role as timekeepers.
Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
I felt a responsibility to present a viable alternative to the popular electric sound.
I made the tenor sax - there's nobody plays like me and I don't play like anybody else
Nothing will stop you being creative more effectively as the fear of making a mistake.
Let heart and voice, like bells of silver, ring, the comfort that this day doth bring.
Music represents nature. Nature represents life. Jazz represents nature. Jazz is life.
Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music.
Music was our food... When we can play, it can't be so terrible. The music, the music!
I practice more than ever ... mostly scales and arpeggios ... and anything I can't do.
You're not right in the head, and nor am I, and this is why....this is why I like you.
How could you even dream or think something of someone who is as uncommercial as I am?
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
If you really understand the meaning of be-bop, you understand the meaning of freedom.
I believe in the power of music. To me, it isn't just a fad. This is a positive thing.