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Beethoven's last quartets were written by a deaf man and should only be listened to by a deaf man.

Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.

Music must serve a purpose; it must be a part of something larger than itself, a part of humanity.

You must surrender whatever preconceptions you have about music if you're really interested in it.

So don't you worry your pretty little mind because people throw rocks at things that shine. [Ours]

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

I got private lessons in keyboard at Julliard, before New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.

A Jazz man should be saying what he feels: humor, sadness, joy... all the things that humans have.

Historically, black music has influenced other cultures and other genres and created other genres.

Jazz is very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians playing Jazz music.

They say that Nero started the fire himself because he needed a suitable backdrop for his concert.

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.

Always in the black spirituals there's that promise that things are going to be better, by and by.

Music fills the infinite between two souls. This has been muffled by the mist of our daily habits.

When I had nothing else, I had my mother and the piano. And you know what? They were all I needed.

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do.

I have a passion for music; I love music. But I also have a passion for money and paying my bills.

A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime.

Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.

Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music for the first time, as if I had never heard it before.

I lose myself in music because I can't be bothered explaining what I feel to anyone else around me.

I do all the work so it's only right that I should get the most money. Plus I am the most handsome.

We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity.

I'll be forever grateful to this instrument for being the surfboard that I rode the wave of life on

What I'm dealing with is so vast and great that it can't be called the truth. It's above the truth.

Computers and electronic music are not the opposite of the warm human music. It's exactly the same.

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

But I don't believe in organised politics, organised religion, organised music, organised anything.

I believe in the future of country music, but a future without roots is like a kite with no string.

A name doesn't make the music. It's just called that to differentiate it from other types of music.

Whatever else has been said about me personally is unimportant. When I sing, I believe. I'm honest.

Benny Goodman was one of the big influences as a clarinet player. That's why I wanted the clarinet.

Keep doing what you do, and people that enjoy what you do are gonna buy your music and love on you.

Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.

There's sketch, improv, writing, acting, music, and badminton. Those are the seven forms of comedy.

If you possess something but you can't give it away, then you don't possess it... it possesses you.

Before Cliff (Richard) and The Shadows, there had been nothing worth listening to in British music.

Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds.

You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.

The American public really does have a death wish for me. They want me to die. I'm not going to die.

I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.

Creativity is not simply a property of exceptional people but an exceptional property of all people.

Dizzy used to tell me I'm playing too hard. He'd say to not give everything. Miles told me that too.

I never believed in a set routine. It should depend on how you feel, because you play what you feel.

You're just a little too hip for the room. It's not good to be too hip because two hips make an ass.

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

Music videos are like tools that young artists use to earn respect from their peers, to 'represent.'

One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.

I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.

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