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"Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education."
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"Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe."
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"Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else."
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"When it came time to hire a guitar player ... I didn't even have to think about it ... Mike Bloomfield was the best guitar player I'd ever heard."
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"I like the music. I love it & live it in fact. But for me the business part of music just plain stinks."
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"I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better."
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"Preposterous ass, that never read so far to know the cause why music was ordain'd! Was it not to refresh the mind of man, after his studies or his usual pain?"
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"One very important thing I learned from Monk was his complete dedication to music. That was his reason for being alive. Nothing else mattered except music, really."
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"If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth."
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"Once a musician has enough ability to get into a top music school, the thing that distinguishes one performer from another is how hard he or she works. That's it. And what's more, the people at the very top don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder."
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"Music is the art... which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the condition to which all the other arts are constantly aspiring."
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"I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music."
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"You gotta love livin', baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass."
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"I haven't a great Jazz band and I don't want one."
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"I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music."
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"Music is the emotional life of the most people."
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"It would be nice to hear someone accidentally whistle something of mine, somewhere, just once."
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"The music of all creatures has to do with their loves, even of toads and frogs. Is it not the same with man?"
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"Don't make the mistakes I made of not taking care of myself. Please, keeps your chops cool and don't overblow. If you are going to play hard, be sure to warm up. I'd get carried away trying to stay right with the momentum [of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers]. I used to try and play like Coltrane and solo for 30 or 40 choruses. It all caught up with me."
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