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"After a while, another voice said: One, two, three, four- And the universe came into being. It was wrong to call it a big bang. That would just be noise, and all that noise could create is more noise and a cosmos full of random particles. Matter exploded into being, apparently as chaos, but in fact as a chord. The ultimate power chord."
"I heard someone say that all black people got rhythm. Bullshit."
"I must play the instrument I've got."
"The only thing constant is change, we keep going through it not only in Las Vegas but in every part of our business and culture"
"Disappointment came to me, and booted me, and bruised and hurt me, but that's how people grow up."
"I dream of songs. I dream they fall down through the centuries, from my distant ancestors, and come to me. I dream of lullabies and sea shanties and keening cries and rhythms and stories and backbeats."
"To master the piano is to master the universe."
"Last night I dreamt that somebody loved me. No hope, no harm; just another false alarm."
"I usually think in terms of music"
"Technology is a servant who makes so much noise cleaning up in the next room that his master cannot make music."
"Let my style capture all the sounds of my time. This should make it an annoyance to my contemporaries. But later generations should hold it to their ears like a seashell in which there is the music of an ocean of mud."
"Always pack your uniform on top."
"Dizzy used to tell me I'm playing too hard. He'd say to not give everything. Miles told me that too."
"In rock & roll heaven, there ARE drum solos, but only the drummers can hear them."
"Definitely, and it's getting more spiritual. Pretty soon I believe people will have to rely on music to get some kind of peace of mind, or satisfaction, or direction, actually. More so than politics, the big ego scene. You know it's an art of words... Meaning nothing. Therefore you will have to get an earthier substance, like music or the arts."
"As a great democratic society, we have a special responsibility to the arts. For art is the great democrat, calling forth creative genius from every sector of society, disregarding race or religion or wealth or color. What freedom alone can bring is the liberation of the human mind and a spirit which finds its greatest flowering in the free society. I see of little more importance to the future of our country and our civilization than the full recognition of the place of the artist."
""I've always thought there was this underlying thing in Paul's "Get Back." When we were in the studio recording it, every time he sang the line "Get back to where you once belonged," he'd look at Yoko.""
"Elvis died the day he went into the army."
"Without Jimmy Dean, the Beatles never would have existed."
"If The Beatles or the 60's had a message, it was 'Learn to swim. And once you've learned - swim!"
