One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.
Where words fail, music speaks.
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.
They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn.
Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.
If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.
They tell me Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
Man, there's no boundary line to art!
You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow. (Oscar trying to talk his way out of a speeding ticket)
Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.
When kids look up to great scientists the way they do to great musicians and actors, civilization will jump to the next level
When I hear a great musician, I can feel his life inside the music.
I didn't want to be precious about things. Of course, the idea is to make great music, but if you have great musicians up there, it gives me some leeway to play around a little bit.
In my view a jazz musician is a great musician
I never use someone just because they are great musicians. I work with people who have the same kind of feeling towards the music that I do, and the subject that I'm speaking of at that time.
I was always moved by all of the music. As a young man, Duke Ellington and Lionel Hampton, Count Basie and all these great musicians would come through our town of Memphis. There wasn't adequate hotels, so these musicians - the lady who ran the theater knew my mother, who had a large house, and many of them would stay with us. So that was another great blessing, so I'm always around these great geniuses, and to realize their humanity is such a touching thing.
These musicians, such as these Cubans in Havana, are a part of a scene that did produce great music and great musicians. They came from this tradition, so it's a good place to look. It's like prospecting: You gotta know where to look.
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