Down the road someone is practicing scales, The notes like little fishes vanish with a wink of tails

When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people.

If you're gonna sing meaningful songs, you have to be committed to living a life that backs that up.

My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.

The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.

Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.

Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.

I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.

The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.

I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.

... all of the great sounds that James Burton and Jimmy Bryant were getting, came out of Telecasters

With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.

.. you've got to be original, or there will be nothing distinctive or interesting about your playing

Neil Young played Helpless, and by the time he finished, we were asking him if we could join his band

One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers.

Dance music is my love, is my passion, is my life. I live for my fans and take my art very seriously.

Can anybody be given creativity? No. Only equipment to develop it if it's in them in the first place.

I even think that, sentimentally, I am disposed to harmony. But organically I am incapable of a tune.

If you have this passion for music, you don't stop doing it - it chooses you and doesn't release you.

You know, music is sex. It's a sensual driving mode that affects people if it's played a certain way.

Since Mozart's day composers have learned the art of making music throatily and palpitatingly sexual.

I own a mortgage company and a real estate company funded by the music. Florida is a kinda gold mine.

I have no idea about the state of rap. I don't pay attention. I just listen to old music that I have.

Who that has heard a strain of music feared then lest he should speak extravagantly any more forever?

I gave up rock 'n' roll for the rock of ages! I used to be a glaring homosexual until God changed me!

I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn't get bored anywhere.

I've never believed in cheapening music by going according to what some people think is public taste.

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.

I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.

Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It's equally humbling and uplifting.

Whenever society gets too stifling and the rules too complex, there's some sort of musical explosion.

The most effective preaching of the gospel is when it is accompanied by beautiful, appropriate music.

Music is nourishment, and a comforting elixir. Music multiplies the beauty of life and all its values.

People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a Jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.

All the music you've ever heard in your life is somewhere in your head. I don't reject that, I use it.

I am really a very shy person. If I appear, it is because of the music, not because I want to be seen.

Life on the road is murder. It's as though life begins and ends when you have your horn in your mouth.

When things get tough, there are two things that make life worth living: Mozart, and quantum mechanics

When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.

I like to be with my friends and my family, listen to music and read books. Things like that relax me.

Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.

Why, after all, must everyone like music? That they are missing something is just the lover's opinion.

The music I listen, the book I read, and the people I meet; these are some things that keeps me going.

I kept thinking there's bound to be something else? I could hear it sometimes, but I couldn't play it.

All I try to do is write music that feels meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion behind it.

I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.

Silence is our deepest nature, our home, our common ground, our peace. Silence reveals. Silence heals.

Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Jazz is like wine. When it is new it's only for the experts, but when it gets older everybody wants it.

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