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That's what music is all about, vibes. That's what makes people react and relate to a song, what makes it soulful.
When I dance, it's incredible. I can't describe it, there's no words. You just tap into your mojo and you just go.
Clarinets, like lawyers, have cases, mouthpieces, and they need a constant supply of hot air in order to function.
To his orchestra Stop da music, stop da music! You're supposed to follow da music, not chase it all over da place.
I went through a struggle, and I really needed to get myself together and connect with my purpose, which is music.
Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.
I am not the Beatles. I'm me. Paul isn't the Beatles...The Beatles are the Beatles. Separately, they are separate.
Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.
Charlie Christians' contributions to the electric guitar are as big as Thomas Edisons' contributions to the world.
With my singing I can make, a refuge for my spirit's sake; a house of shining words, to be my fragile immortality.
You don't know what you like, you like what you know. In order to know what you like, you have to know everything.
To play piano is a significant part of my life, my existence. It fulfills a very physical & spiritual need for me.
The people in Japan know more about the history of jazz and the musicians than the people in the United States do.
I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.
If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.
A day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music - that would be rest.
Music helps set a romantic mood. Imagine her surprise when you say, "We don't need a stereo - I have an accordion."
I realized music is the most important thing to me and I love writing songs, and I think I had more to say in life.
I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music.
Music is my therapy and my straitjacket. Music keeps me sane and keeps my mind on something. It's fragile up there.
Inspiring music may fill the soul with heavenly thoughts, move one to righteous action, or speak peace to the soul.
Some musicians, man, you hear the note almost before they hit it. Jimi, Coltrane and Charlie Parker were like that.
I sit around listening to classical music. I don't play video games. I love to go to dinner, go on picnics, travel.
When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.
I think all record companies should be run by a musician. Just as you wouldn't trust your health to an electrician.
I think the kazoo and chocolate-chip cookies have a lot in common. All you need is a mouth to appreciate either one.
Troubadours travelled from town to town. They didn't really sing too good, which is the main reason they kept going.
If you are a pop band, don't say you're a metal band. Poison and Warrant were about as metal as the Backstreet Boys.
The quickest way to become troubled is to be concerned with what people are gonna say about your life and your work.
It is the little rift within the lute That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all.
I've been working in the music industry since I was 15 years old, and I feel like I've always been ahead of my time.
When his veering gait And every motion of his starry train Seem governed by a strain Of music, audible to him alone.
When a man is not disposed to hear music, there is not a more disagreeable sound in harmony than that of the violin.
A song ain't nothing but a conversation fixed up to where you can talk it over and over without getting tired of it.
We're a very expensive group; we break a lot of rules. It's unheard of to combine opera with a rock theme, my dear .
The music is within your heart, your soul, your spirit, and this is all I did when I sat at piano. I just go within.
There is something in the spirit of song...that fires the soul in a way that it can't otherwise be touched or fired.
This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.
If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC
Just because I'm playing jazz I don't forget about me. I play or write me, the way I feel, through jazz, or whatever.
If a man is not good, what has he to do with the rules of propriety? If he is not good, what has he to do with music?
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
Jazz Improvisation means that practice is not as straightforward as it would be when you simply have a score to play.
Psychoanalyses is like music lessons, for 5 years you do not notice any progress and suddenly you can play the piano.
It's very weird to write a song in your apartment and then realize that this random person knows all the words to it.
To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music.
The music that is played on the radio all the time or written about in magazines has nothing to do with musicianship.
Soul music is about longevity and reaching and touching people on a human level - and that's never going to get lost.
The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers.
You have to be born with it. You can't even buy it. If you could buy it, they'd have it at the next Newport Festival.