"Music is spiritual. The music business is not."
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"Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule."
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"This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before."
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"Music represents nature. Nature represents life. Jazz represents nature. Jazz is life."
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"Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics."
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"Actually I don't remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs."
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"All you need is love."
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"There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent."
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"Talking about music is like dancing about architecture."
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"I think jazz is a beautiful, democratic music. It encourages musicians with very strong, and many times, very different points of view to work together as a team while, at the same time, giving them the space to express their individuality. It's a very important art form and can be used as a model for different cultures to work together."
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"You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail."
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"The music I like to play is Rock 'N Roll. I like to rock like a wild animal. I like to rock it well enough to whip a yak's ass. I love to rock it good on a horse's ass. I like to rock it real hard. I love to rock it all the way to Russia. I like to kick out the Jazz and kick it out all the way."
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"Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us."
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"I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable."
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"You only get better by playing."
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"If songs were lines in a conversation, the situation would be fine . . ."
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"Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy."
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"When you sing, always tell the truth."
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"I'm gonna put a curse on you and all your kids will be born completely naked."
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"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent."
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