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"For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions."
"I think I had it in the back of my mind that I wanted to sound like a dry martini."
"Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside."
"When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star."
"Love songs last because they are about feelings that don't change."
"My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die."
"When his veering gait And every motion of his starry train Seem governed by a strain Of music, audible to him alone."
"Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilised into time and tune."
"I'm playing dark history. It's beyond black. I'm dealing with the dark things of the cosmos."
"Rejection is the greatest aphrodisiac."
"As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection."
"When I was studying... there weren't any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and I had the technique to do it. People have heard my music and heard the classic in it, so I have become known as a black classical pianist."
"I don't know why, it's the same reason why you like some music and you don't like others. There's something about it that you like. Ultimately I don't find it's in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it's fundamentally emotional."
"I call architecture frozen music."
"When real music comes to me - the music of the spheres, the music that surpasses understanding - that has nothing to do with me, cause I'm just the channel. The only joy for me is for it to be given to me, and to transcribe it like a medium... those moments are what I live for."
"I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything."
"Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God."
"Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune."
"I don't care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing."
"I would like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age."
