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My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.
If it wasn't for hustlers, gangsters & gamblers there'd be no Jazz. Wasn't middle~class who said Let's go hear Bird tonight.
The conductor of an orchestra doesn’t make a sound. He depends, for his power, on his ability to make other people powerful.
Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required fundamental of human emotion.
Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself.
There is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via the intellect.
That's the amazing thing about music: there's a song for every emotion. Can you imagine a world with no music? It would suck.
Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz.
The music critic, Huneber, could never quite make up his mind about a new symphony until he had seen the composer's mistress.
Music is not math. It's science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion.
I do not know which to prefer - The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after.
music alone can abolish differences of language or culture between two people and evoke something indestructible within them.
Where human eyes have never seen, where human beings have never been, I build a world of abstract dreams, and I wait for you.
When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, it was transformed for me into love.
I'd crack up without my music. It's the best company you can have, really. It don't say 'no' or 'maybe,' or ask no questions.
Rachmaninov has some kind of weird dark edge to his music which I don't think I've heard with any other kind of music before.
First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.
Jazz voices that unvanquishable, natural will toward creaativity and self-expression, depite everything, in the here and now.
Lots of narcissistic people have helped lots of other people with their music. That's such a narcissistic thing to say! Ha ha!
My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.
Sing again, with your dear voice revealing. A tone Of some world far from ours, where music and moonlight and feeling are one.
Playing scales is like a boxer skipping rope or punching a bag. It's not the thing in itself; it's preparatory to the activity
The value of jazz still has to be clarified. People involve themselves with its superficialities without digging for its soul.
I don't know if music can change the world overnight but I know that music can help someone make it through a difficult night.
To blow is not to play on the flute; you must move the fingers. [Ger., Blasen ist nicht floten, ihr musst die Finger bewegen.]
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.
Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.
Prayer is when you talk to God. Meditation is when you're listening. Playing the piano allows you to do both at the same time.
"Go and Say Goodbye" by the Buffalo Springfield stands as one of the first examples of what would later be branded country rock
The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
.. the Grand Ole Opry used to come on, and I used to watch that. They used to have some pretty heavy cats, heavy guitar players
Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen to it, we find it fascinating.
Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.
The only thing constant is change, we keep going through it not only in Las Vegas but in every part of our business and culture
I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.
There's not a day goes by that I don't appreciate the freedom that I have to make music and tour and spend time with my family.
A song is like a saddle: you ride it for a while, and if it's the right kind of song you can sing it for the rest of your life.
Not the rich viol, trump, cymbal, nor horn, Guitar, nor cittern, nor the pining flute, Are half so sweet as tender human words.
The river was always there inside of me, but I was very shy. I could see that this was my path. I felt destiny in my own music.
I go to a very visual place when I'm singing. It's very cinematic and I get this feeling of space. I love when music does that.
For now the poet cannot die, Nor leave his music as of old, But round him ere he scarce be cold Begins the scandal and the cry.
I wish BTS could set up a model for k-pop with the best music and content so we have a positive impact on the U.S. music scene.
Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he's not down for his homeboys, I don't wanna be a part of him or around him.
Musicke doth withdraw our mindes from earthly cogitations, lifteth up our spirits into heaven, maketh them light and celestial.
In essence, String Theory describes space and time, matter and energy, gravity and light, indeed all of God's creation as music.
People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.
Jazz is about the only form of art existing today in which there is freedom of the individual without the loss of group contact.
Virtual Self' was me trying to paint a picture of a very foggy, distorted memory that I had of electronic music on the internet.
For me, jazz, R&B, jump swing, Chicago blues, country blues, early hillbilly music, and honky tonk all stem from the same source
Drugs have nothing to do with the creation of music. In fact, they are dumb and self indulgent. Kind of like sucking your thumb!