"Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music."
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"May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason? The musician feels mathematics, the mathematician thinks music: music the dream, mathematics the working life."
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"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 ."
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"I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown."
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"Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape; that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love."
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"Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom."
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"The thing is this: When I play, what I try to do is to reach my subconscious level. I don't want to overtly think about anything, because you can't think and play at the same time - believe me, I've tried it (laughs)."
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"Oh, the brave Music of a distant drum!"
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"Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows."
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"Invisible airwaves crackle with life Bright antennae bristle with the energy Emotional feedback on a timeless wavelength Bearing a gift beyond price, almost free"
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"Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me."
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"The more real you get, the more unreal everything else is."
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"We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so."
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"Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?"
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"I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That's all I know."
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"He not busy being born is busy dying."
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"Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, None but ourselves can free our minds. Have no fear for atomic energy, 'Cause none of them can stop the time."
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"A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime."
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"Genius is its own reward; for the best that one is, one must necessarily be for oneself. . . . Further, genius consists in the working of the free intellect., and as a consequence the productions of genius serve no useful purpose. The work of genius may be music, philosophy, painting, or poetry; it is nothing for use or profit. To be useless and unprofitable is one of the characteristics of genius; it is their patent of nobility."
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"When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy."
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