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If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
Hope you don't think this is Billy Joel unplugged. I'm a piano player. I'm already unplugged.
Music lovers always want to hear the best. It's about freedom of choice, we supply the music.
With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why.
I'm fortunate that I'm making a living at it now because I'm not equipped to do anything else.
I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That's all I know.
Without music, life would be a mistake... I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance.
I came to town thinking that everybody had the same idea of what country music was that I did.
I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive.
Football is the priority, even more than school. Art is frowned upon. I had to sneak music in.
I should think that being my old lady would be all the satisfaction or career any woman needs.
Throughout the years I have tried to hone my skills to gain mastery over the music in my head.
My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.
The public doesn't want new music; the main thing it demands of a composer is that he be dead.
Music has generally involved a lot of awkward contraptions, a certain amount of heavy lifting.
It would be nice to hear someone accidentally whistle something of mine, somewhere, just once.
The image is one thing and the human being is another...it's very hard to live up to an image.
[Jazz singing] is like pornography. You can't say what it is, but you know it when you see it.
Music can set an atmosphere of worship which invites [the] spirit of revelation, of testimony.
Music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion.
..I wanted to create music that was so different that my mother could tell me from anyone else
There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.
I don't have joy in watching myself, whereas, actually, I quite like listening to my own music.
music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts.
I suppose it never occurs to these people that a man might just want to write a piece of music.
Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.
Once we get used to listening to our dreams, our whole body responds like a musical instrument.
To be a true artist you have to play the way you feel not the way others think you should feel.
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool.
Many jazz artists go to L.A. seeking a more comfortable life and then they really stop playing.
When I got started in New York, if you were different from Miles & Dizzy it was very difficult.
Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him.
I just want to be able to play as fast as my brain goes, and my brain doesn't go all that fast.
Look, you come in here tomorrow, and anything you do with your right hand I'll do with my left.
My original idea for the cover was better - decapitate Paul - but he wouldn't go along with it.
The only thing that could possibly save British politics would be Margaret Thatcher's assassin.
My friends joke that I’m dead until I get onstage. I’m dead right now as you’re speaking to me.
It is Jazz's very nature to change, to develop & adapt to the circumstances of its environment.
Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.
She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.
I can count on one hand the number of instrumental hits there have been over the last 10 years.
If I hadn't had music in my life, it's quite possible I'd be dead and I'd much rather be alive.
Singing, it's like it's like loving somebody, it's a supreme emotional and physical experience.
Being in Blur has allowed me to travel and hear the music that's being made all over the world.
Thelonious Sphere Monk: there's not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name.
I loved music, but I found myself at the point where I wanted to die. I didn't care about life.
I think a lot of the more successful artists of our time basically have barracudas for managers
When the silence bores you, let the music play; when the music bores you, let the silence play!
Do not neglect your music. It will be a companion which will sweeten many hours of life to you.