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Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.
I think of music as fuel, its spectrum of energy governed by tempi, volume, and heart.
Personally, I can't see how anyone can produce any beautiful music out of being angry.
There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.
To copy the truth can be a good thing, but to invent the truth is better, much better.
Kenny Burrell is a great musician and his music has helped to make me what I am today.
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Listening to music engages the previously acquired personal knowledge of the listener.
I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping.
I think I'll give them another chance. Americans deserve another chance with my music.
The city is built To music, therefore never built at all, And therefore built forever.
The outer space beings are my brothers. They sent me here. They already know my music.
As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be Jazz.
Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.
Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.
I have never seen faces, but because I have looked people in the eye, only their gazes.
A note can be as small as a pin or as big as the world, it depends on your imagination.
When Jack Benny plays the violin, it sounds as though the strings are still in the cat.
The object of music is a Sound. The end; to delight, and move various Affections in us.
Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory.
There's nothing better than live music. It's raw energy, and raw energy feeds the soul.
Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens.
No music can fill the gaping void ... at least in my experience only faith. Only faith.
Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.
The music of Wagner imposes mental tortures that only algebra has the right to inflict.
Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.
If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
Last night I dreamt that somebody loved me. No hope, no harm; just another false alarm.
What I'm doing, I prefer to call that jazz, because it is a beautiful word - I love it.
Barney Kessel is incredible. He's just amazing . . . . Nobody can play guitar like that
I really liked Wynton when I first met him. He's still a nice young man, only confused.
As it enters the ear, does it come in like broken glass, or does it come in like honey?
Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language.
An animal can learn to fight, but to sing beautiful things and make people believe them.
You gotta have a dream. If you don't have a dream, how you gonna make a dream come true?
Improvisation is the ability to create something very spiritual, something of one's own.
The human being receives the pleasure from music, not from the argument over what it is.
Actually I don't remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs.
Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing.
I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play.
Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
If you don't have sex and you don't do drugs, your rock 'n' roll better be awfully good.
Music stands in a much closer connection with pure sensation than any of the other arts.
I think 42 Dugg is a superstar - he's got the voice, the music, the look and the hustle.
Music helped me, growing up: it very much felt like a companion and made me less lonely.
An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
When you listen to someone improvise, the notes that are played are only half the story.
Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.
Music comes first from my heart, and then goes upstairs to my head where I check it out.