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Surf music is actually just the sound of the waves played on a guitar: that wet, splashy sound.
Jazz is such a powerful cultural statement that it's almost as if it's intertwined with society.
Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past.
I like lots of Korean music that most people have probably never heard of. I also enjoy hip hop.
We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
There's so much music out there & so many possibilities. I like anyone who plays any instrument.
I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.
Music was definitely a way out. Instead of playing basketball, I was going to recording studios.
Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
If The Beatles or the 60's had a message, it was 'Learn to swim. And once you've learned - swim!
Composing for the prepared piano is not a criticism of the instrument. I'm only being practical.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is the language I don't understand.
Time in our universe is always one way: no going back, no reverse. In music, you can reverse it!
I try to put the same spirit into that that I put into any other music endeavor I'm involved in.
Whatever I'm doing, whatever comes along, this music is something that I've always wanted to do.
I'm not a man of many words, I'm not very expressive or emotional, but it comes out in my music.
Ladies of the choir, I want you to sound like twenty-two women having babies without chloroform.
I have been doing music all my life so everyday when I get up I expect music will be part of it.
I think a life in music is a life beautifully spent, and this is what I have devoted my life to.
All riddles are blues, / And all blues are sad, / And I'm only mentioning / Some blues I've had.
My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.
I'm able to sometimes express things even more articulately on the piano than I am with singing.
Poems are a form of music, and language just happens to be our instrument - language and breath.
That was when I realised that music is the most profound, magical form of communication there is.
Disappointment came to me, and booted me, and bruised and hurt me, but that's how people grow up.
People will always need love, romance, a tender touch, and really personal and deeply felt music.
There's a category for me. I like to be referred to as a good singer of good songs in good taste.
Drumming is like film directing. You build a framework for everyone to create something together.
When I have downtime, music is a big part of my life. Not so much singing, but I play the guitar.
Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.
...I have great hopes for the possibility of a dynamic universalism that respects all our people.
In the Negro melodies of America I find all that is needed for a great and noble school of music.
When you enter a room, you have to kiss his ring. I don't mind, but he has it in his back pocket.
It isn't true that you live only once. You only die once. You live lots of times if you know how.
My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.
Classic rock, psychedelic rock - I like to dig up old music and see what I can get influenced by.
When I was a little kid, I took tap and ballet. I've always loved to dance. I'm a rhythm machine.
Erik Satie does not say the opposite of Debussy; he says the same thing only the other way round.
Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.
I compulsively reach for perfection in music, often at the expense of everything else in my life.
A musician, an artist, an architect: the man or woman who is not one of these is not a Christian.
Some of the greatest sermons that have ever been preached were preached by the singing of a song.
I think that a musician is like a doctor, he's supposed to heal people and make them feel better.
Each time I leaped I seemed to touch the sky and when I regained earth it seemed to be mine alone.
The music stuff has been very difficult. It's got to be right, and even then, it better be on key.
I'm always looking for ways to develop as a Jazz artist, to find different ways of using my voice.
I've always had such a high level of respect for Taylor Swift because she writes all of her music.
I never practice my guitar. From time to time I just open the case & throw in a piece of raw meat.
In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That's a little bit too much.