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The world went mad and used us as an excuse.
You can play a shoestring if you're sincere.
Jazz washes away the dust of every day life.
A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance.
Without Elvis none of us could have made it.
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
The silver, snarling trumpets 'gan to chide.
Country music is three chords and the truth.
Music is the medicine of the breaking heart.
Every great inspiration is but an experiment.
I just like music, bro. I listen to everyone.
I always wanted to be a spontaneous composer.
The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness.
When you play, never mind who listens to you.
They always want to sell me as a hard bopper.
The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.
Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free.
Don't settle for style. Succeed in substance.
Slap some keys on her and we'll have a piano.
A good player can make any guitar sound good.
To keep creating you have to be about change.
I am tired before the concert, not afterward.
I don't need words. It's all in the phrasing.
I need drama in my life to keep making music.
Johnny Cashs' face belongs on Mount Rushmore.
The song is ended, but the melody lingers on.
The heart-flute Knows how to charm the world.
Ninety-five percent of my audience was white.
Jazz was home. It created a hunger within me.
Music washes away the dust of every day life.
What we hear is the quality of our listening.
The music was my friend, my lover, my family.
music became my refuge and then my salvation.
I'm not a star. I'm just backing up the cats.
I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir.
I expect the audience to come up to my level.
Jazz is one of the least learnable art forms.
You don't need any brains to listen to music.
You have to give people something to dream on.
There is no finer guitarist than Kenny Burrell
Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.
To master the piano is to master the universe.
There is music in all things, if men had ears.
Music is something that should give you peace.
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
Music is a performance and needs the audience.
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
Music is spiritual. The music business is not.
In memory everything seems to happen to music.
It takes an intelligent ear to listen to Jazz.