"Music inflames temperament."
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"Music is a means of rapid transportation."
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"The Beatles were just a band that made it very, very big, that's all."
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"We were always going to dump him when we found a decent drummer."
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"Those who love music are gentle and honest in their tempers. I always loved music, and would not, for a great matter, be without the little skill which I possess in the art."
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"In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That's a little bit too much."
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"It's always been a gift with me, hearing music the way I do. I don't know where it comes from, it's just there and I don't question it."
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"So What or Kind of Blue were done in that era, the right hour, the right day. It's over; it's on the record."
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"Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician."
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"Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth."
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"Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes."
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"Albert King wasn't my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues"
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"Philosophy is the highest music."
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"Rhythm and harmony enter most powerfully into the inner most part of the soul and lay forcible hands upon it, bearing grace with them, so making graceful him who is rightly trained."
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"Our basic audience begins with creaking elderly types of twenty-three and above."
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"If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don't back down."
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"Music is the application of sounds to the canvas of silence."
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"A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music."
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"Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place."
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"Jazz was home. It created a hunger within me."
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