"Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind."
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"Speaking of Georges Bizet: His music has the tang of sunny climates, their bracing air, their clearness. It voices a sensibility hitherto unknown to us."
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"But there are rock and roll fans all over this continent and all over the globe, really, and we're just set at marking the planet with Styx music until the day we die."
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"And in an era where radio stations that are inclined to play Styx music are your classic rock stations and the stations that play current music look at us as dinosaurs - the only way we could reach people with our new music, generally, is to perform live."
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"I try to use my music to move these people to act."
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"Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction."
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"A 'mistake' is beside the point, for once anything happens it authentically is."
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"If this word "music" is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound."
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"The life of the arts is far from an interruption, a distraction, in the life of a nation, is close to the center of a nation's purpose-and is a test of the quality of a nations' civilization."
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"We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship."
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"I am not the Beatles. I'm me. Paul isn't the Beatles...The Beatles are the Beatles. Separately, they are separate."
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"We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity."
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"The silver, snarling trumpets 'gan to chide."
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"Music is an addiction."
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"Joao Gilberto on guitar could read a newspaper and sound good."
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"There's music in the sighing of a reed; There's music in the gushing of a rill; There's music in all things, if men had ears; The earth is but the music of the spheres."
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"Singing is near miraculous because it is the mastering of what is otherwise a pure instrument of egotism: the human voice."
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"Charlie Christian had no more impact on my playing than Django Reinhardt or Lonnie Johnson. I just wanted to play like him. I wanted to play like all of them. All of these people were important to me. I couldn't play like any of them, though."
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"The Blues? It's the mother of American music. That's what is is - the source."
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"I'm all in favor of getting grants for musicians. Or any other good brand of Scotch."
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