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What I came back to is that jazz is a music to be played and not to be intellectualized on.
We get nearer to the Lord through music than perhaps through any other thing except prayer.
Damn it, when I'm bombastic, I have my reasons. I want to be bombastic-take it or leave it.
In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of.
One thing I like about jazz, kid, is that I don't know what's going to happen next. Do you?
If you play divine music, spiritual music, then you are bound to give and get satisfaction.
From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.
Music is like a lover that I can't commit to, but I seem to always find myself in bed with.
When you said you were a terrible singer, I thought you were being humble. But you weren't.
I would like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age.
Of course, there are a lot of ways you can treat the blues, but it will still be the blues.
The majority of people who keel over dead at concerts are killed by a long trumpet passage.
Every act, every deed of justice and mercy and benevolence, makes heavenly music in Heaven.
Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.
I'm playing dark history. It's beyond black. I'm dealing with the dark things of the cosmos.
Music is just another language, but it's very special because it crosses everyone's borders.
The hills are alive with the sound of music, with songs they have sung for a thousand years.
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.
I can see me continuing to make the best music I can, and let the chips fall where they may.
Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering.
Jazz demands that you bring to it things that are valuable to you, that are personal to you.
Jazz does not belong to one race or culture, but is a gift that America has given the world.
Music is the embodiment of my soul. When I play, I'm not performing a song: I'm becoming it.
Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
To me, nostalgia is nothing more than a mindless plundering of the past for the commonplace.
Music so wishes to be heard that it sometimes calls on unlikely characters to give it voice.
Music means freedom to me. But in acting you can pretend to be someone else and I like that.
I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.
My own thing is in my head. I hear sounds and if I don't get them together nobody else will.
I think I'll got to Thailand for a year and become a Thai boxer. I'm gonna train for a year.
Jazz is one of the best things that you can find in your life, it can always be your friend.
Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.
If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.
I'm a total hip-hop geek. That's my favorite kind of music to listen to while getting ready.
Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.
Of the whole bunch of guys who play hollow body guitar, I think Herb Ellis has the most drive
The people who really got me off were dealing with the musical potential of their instrument.
Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music.
Music is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make.
Second violins can play a concerto perfectly if they're in their own home and nobody's there.
The glamour Of childish days is upon me, my manhood is cast Down in the flood of remembrance.
Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.
You may have holes in your shoes, but don't let the people out front know it. Shine the tops.
Music is its own language - if you don't speak it, it's hard to say what you're trying to do.
We don't really have more than acouple of solos. It's just the way our music is put together.
Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music.
Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?
It's meant to reaffirm the validity of that music - clean, minimalist, honest, classic music.
A friend is always good to have, but a lover's kiss is better than angels raining down on me.