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When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition.
In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die.
Classical music is this music that was written by a bunch of dead people a long time ago.
Music is nothing separate from me. It is me... You'd have to remove the music surgically.
A little bit if listening with a passable ear will get an awful lot of messages anywhere.
No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.
I've found time can heal most anything and you just might find who you're supposed to be.
Melodies die out, like the pipe of Pan, with the ears that love them and listen for them.
Most blues don't have a beginning, middle, or end. You just cut a couple slices of blues.
Too bad people can't always be playing music, maybe then there wouldn't be any more wars.
I am a classical music lover - not necessarily the contemporary stuff, but the old stuff.
Jazz is music made by and for people who have chosen to feel good in spite of conditions.
I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.
I still tune in to the radio and listen to pop music and enjoy it as much as I ever have.
There's nothing like a good cheating song to make me want to run home to be with my wife.
In my music, my plays, my films, I want to carry always this central idea: to be African.
I don't find the songs; they find me. I just strum my guitar and wait for a lyric to come.
My image seems to be so infantilized, and I don't really know why. It belittles the music.
Respect your own creativity and respect the creativity and creative space of other people.
Art is self expression. If you are expressing someone else's personality, that is not art.
No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
I started calling myself the Pied Piper, when I started using the flute sound in my music.
jazz is the expression of America's romantic self, its sensual potency, its lyrical force.
Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
No composer has yet caught this rhythm of America - it is too mighty for the ears of most.
It really matters what you listen to. . . . Select music that will strengthen your spirit.
When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.
Music has always been my constant, my salvation. It's cliche to write that, but it's true.
There's a lot of different forms of communication, but music is absolutely the purest one.
Singing is a trick to get people to listen to music for longer than they would ordinarily.
When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other.
I love to sing, and I love to drink scotch. Most people would rather hear me drink scotch.
Master your instrument. Master the music. And then forget all that bullshit and just play.
Music to me is like breathing. I don't get tired of breathing, I don't get tired of music.
My dad's name is Robert Stafford. His music name is R. L. Stafford; he makes gospel music.
Rock and roll doesn't allow you to grow up - especially if you're not trying very hard to.
Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.
Artists were nurtured back in the '70s. Their music was developed by the record companies.
If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.
Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night.
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other's ideas.
I like listening to music and driving. How do you say... It's the only way I can 'chillax.'
A musician's biography is written wherever he performs; everybody hears what he is playing.
Everybody has a different kind of talent and a different timetable as to when they develop.
Music is not a profession. Music is a way of life - one that requires much professionalism.
They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.
If you listen to nature, all the sounds are done in a confident way. I'm trying to do that.
I'm not into music - the only music I like is musical theater, but I have every Ween album.