"Music is well said to be the speech of angels."
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"Music gives a soul to the universe."
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"The qualities in music which I considered most important - and still do - were beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination, and sincerity."
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"If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn."
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"A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted."
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"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."
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"Music directly imitates the passions or states of the soul...when one listens to music that imitates a certain passion, he becomes imbued withthe same passion; and if over a long time he habitually listens to music that rouses ignoble passions, his whole character will be shaped to an ignoble form."
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"I did all you can do with a clarinet. Any more would have been less."
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"The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils."
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"In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die."
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"In memory everything seems to happen to music."
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"No one is original. Everyone is derivative."
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"I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea."
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"We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over the literature; we play the music; we change our minds; we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other."
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"Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter."
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"I see my life in terms of music."
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"The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstance whether created by others or by one's own human failings. They are the only consistent art in the United States which constantly remind us of our limitations while encouraging us to see how far we can actually go. When understood in their more profound implication, they are a corrective, an attempt to draw a line upon man's own limitless assertion."
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"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."
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"Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid."
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"Music gives color to the air of the moment."
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