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• If we compel the composer to write in terms of what the listener is able to hear, we flirt with the danger of freezing the evolution of musical language, whose progressive development comes about through transgressions of a given era's perceptual habits."

  Jean-Jacques Nattiez

  Writing, Flirting, Able

  Jean-Jacques Nattiez (1990). “Music and Discourse: Toward a Semiology of Music”, p.99, Princeton University Press

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• Monk encouraged me to emancipate the drums from their subservient role as timekeepers.

  Max Roach

  Roles, Jazz, Monk

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• Count Basie was college, but Duke Ellington was graduate school.

  Clark Terry

  School, College, Dukes

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• Jazz musicians have some outlaw in them somewhere.

  Mike Zwerin

  Jazz, Outlaw, Musician

  1985 La Tristesse de Saint Louis: Swing Under the Nazis, ch.4.

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• Light quirks of music, broken and uneven,Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n.

  Alexander Pope

  Dance, Light, Broken

  Alexander Pope (1797). “Moral essays”, p.292

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• The trouble with this country is that everything is new. We don't have any consideration for the past... Just because something is old, you don't just rip it down. You can renovate it instead of ripping it down and building something new.

  Woody Shaw

  Country, Rip, Past

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• From the heaviest of the heavy to classical to country, that's what I listen to, I listen to a variety and I enjoy good music, good songs.

  Tom Araya

  Country, Song, Listening

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think it's good if a song has more than one meaning. Maybe that kind of song can reach far more people.

  Syd Barrett

  Song, Stars, Thinking

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A true artist does not depend on radio for success. A true fan does not let radio determine what they support

  Talib Kweli

  Inspirational, Success, Artist

  FaceBook post by Talib Kweli from Apr 23, 2012

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• No one understands another's grief, no one understands another's joy... My music is the product of my talent and my misery. And that which I have written in my greatest distress is what the world seems to like best.

  Franz Schubert

  Grief, Joy, Understanding

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• A lot of times, when people say hip-hop, they don't know what they're talking about. They just think of the rappers. When you talk about hip-hop, you're talking about the whole culture and movement. You have to take the whole culture for what it is.

  Afrika Bambaataa

  Rapper, Thinking, Talking

  "Q & A: Afrika Bambaataa Spins Hip-Hop Knowledge". Q&A with Simon McCormack, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 26, 2010.

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• I think those who say that you can't tango if you are not Argentine are mistaken. Tango was an immigrant music... so it does not have a nationality. It's only passport is feeling.

  Carlos Gavito

  Dance, Thinking, Feelings

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• I've never heard anything Wynton [Marsalis] played sound like it meant anything at all. Wynton has no voice and no presence. His music sounds like a talented high-school trumpet player to me... he's jazzy the same way someone who drives a BMW is sporty.

  Keith Jarrett

  School, Player, Bmw

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• Yeah, I was with Jethro Tull for three weeks, so what?

  Tony Iommi

  Three, Band, Week

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• I've never been more moved by a voice than I have been by Roy Orbison. I loved him personally, and I loved his voice. I think of him often and frequently listen to his songs.

  Dolly Parton

  Love, Song, Thinking

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• I saw the dance as a vision of ineffable power. A man could, with dignity and a towering majesty, dance. Not mince, cavort, do "fancy dancing" or "showoff" steps. No: Dance as Michelangelo's visions dance and as the music of Bach dances.

  Jose Limon

  Dance, Art, Power

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• Everyone gets frustrated and aggressive, and I'd sooner take my aggression out on a guitar than on a person.

  Paul Weller

  Frustration, Guitar, Frustrated

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• Sometimes the break in your heart is like the hole in the flute. Sometimes it’s the place where the music comes through.

  Andrea Gibson

  Love, Broken Heart, Flutes

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• Years from now, after I'm gone, someone will listen to what I've done and know I was here. They may not know or care who I was, but they'll hear my guitars speaking for me.

  Chet Atkins

  Funny, Guitar, Years

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I practice my saxophone three hours a day. I'm not saying I'm particularly special, but if you do something three hours a day for forty years, you get pretty good at it.

  Kenny G

  Inspirational, Years, Practice

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• I go to a very visual place when I'm singing. It's very cinematic and I get this feeling of space. I love when music does that.

  Dave Gahan

  Love, Song, Space

  "Depeche Mode frontman Dave Gahan gets spiritual". Interview with Abbey Goodman, www.cnn.com. June 8, 2012.

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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.

  Marcus Miller

  Beautiful, Teamwork, Art

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Art is my God, Music is my religion.

  Otep Shamaya

  God, Art, Religion

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• A good dancer is one who listens to the musicWe dance the music not the steps. Anyone who aspires to dance never thinks about what he is going to do. What he cares about is that he follows the music. You see, we are painters. We paint the music with our feet.

  Carlos Gavito

  Dance, Thinking, Feet

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• Don't cheat yourself out of music. Music is one thing. The music business is another thing. Save enough of yourself to keep living anyway. Save enough joy in your heart to enjoy it. Let your reward be in the doing of it.

  Bill Withers

  Cheating, Business, Heart

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