"You have to give people something to dream on."
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"There is music in all things, if men had ears."
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"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself."
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"I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir."
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"I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument."
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"I use too much of my brain and need to let some of it rest."
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"Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood," a song that was written for Simone, she confronted the band's lead singer, Eric Burdon. "So you're the honky," she said, "who stole my song and got a hit out of it?"
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"An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness."
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"What are you going to do when you love music? You can't stop."
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"Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent."
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"Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of unrest to a world of peace, and see reality in a new way, as if we were sitting by a mountain lake and contemplating hills and woods and clouds in the tranquil and fathomless water."
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"I'm not supposed to be playing, the music is supposed to be playing me. I'm just supposed to be standing there with the horn, moving my fingers. The music is supposed to be coming through me; that's when it's really happening."
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"It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo. You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz."
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"I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic."
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"You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads."
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"Don't play what's there, play what's not there."
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"And this shall be for music when no one else is near, The fine song for singing, the rare song to hear! That only I remember, that only you admire, Of the broad road that stretches and the roadside fire."
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"The Internet is both great and terrible. As a source of information, a tool for delivering music and art, it's great. But spamming ads and piracy of music is terrible. It's stealing."
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"It's time to take a look at my failures and stop calling them successes. Now I can start working at something that can use me best."
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"We need not destroy the past. It is gone."
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