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• What I love about Sonny's playing is that he is so inventive within the mainstream Jazz vernacular. Because he knows so many ways to deal with musical material, he is never repetitive and hasn't had to invent a new language. Also, he never asked me to do anything but swing!

  Pete La Roca

  Music, Swings, Way

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• His musical inspiration operates in a world uncluttered by conventional bar lines, conventional chord changes, and conventional ways of blowing or fingering a saxophone. Such practical 'limitations' did not even have to be overcome in his music; they somehow never existed for him. Despite this - or more accurately, because of this - his playing has a deep inner logic. Not an obvious surface logic, it is based on subtleties of reaction, subtleties of timing and color that are, I think, quite new to jazz - at least they have never appeared in so pure and direct a form.

  Gunther Schuller

  Inspiration, Thinking, Color

  "All American Music: Composition in the Late Twentieth Century". Book by John Rockwell, 1983.

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• Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing. I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea. I have no one style. I play as I feel.

  Oscar Peterson

  Believe, Play, Ideas

  FaceBook post by Oscar Peterson from Feb 12, 2016

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• About 10 percent of the hearing impaired get musical hallucinations, and about 10 percent of the visually impaired get visual hallucinations.

  Oliver Sacks

  Brain, Hearing, Hallucinations

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• I was so frustrated in Sabbath after the last few albums. I just didn't like the musical direction Sabbath was going in

  Geezer Butler

  Frustrated, Albums, Lasts

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• I think the people that enjoyed Freedom will love this one; and I actually think some of the unique musical twists this project is taking will open it up to a whole new audience as well.

  Michael W. Smith

  Unique, Thinking, People

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• No birdcall is the musical equal of a clarinet blown with panache.

  Edward Hoagland

  Panache, Clarinet, Equal

  Edward Hoagland (2011). “Sex and the River Styx”, p.74, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• Anything can become a musical sound. The wind on telegraph wires is a great sound; get it into your machine and play it and it becomes interesting.

  Hans Zimmer

  Wind, Play, Interesting

  "From 'Gladiator' to 'The Simpsons': Composer Hans Zimmer". CNN interview, www.cnn.com. August 27, 2007.

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• The Stones are a different kind of group. I realized that when I joined them. It's not really so much their musical ability, it's just they have a certain kind of style and attitude which is unique

  Mick Taylor

  Attitude, Unique, Musical Ability

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• Metaphysicians are musicians without musical ability.

  Rudolf Carnap

  Musical Ability, Musician, Without Music

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• Certainly one of the more common experiences in the jazz field is discovering someone new. Improvising musicians are capable of being musical travelers, voyagers. We want to join in on whatever we hear. There is a freedom to wander the musical landscape.

  Gary Burton

  Common Experience, Fields, Musician

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• Free improvisation, in addition to being a highly skilled musical craft, is open to use by almost anyone - beginners, children, and non-musicians.

  Derek Bailey

  Children, Crafts, Musician

  Derek Bailey (1992). “Improvisation: its nature and practice in music”

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• Actually John, Paul Rutherford, and Trevor Watts, and several other rather well known English jazz musicians had got their training by joining the Air Force, which was a pretty standard way for people to get some kind of musical education in those days.

  Evan Parker

  Air, People, Training

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• If the psychic energies of the average mass of people watching a football game or a musical comedy could be diverted into the rational channels of a freedom movement, they would be invincible.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Music, Sports, Football

  "The Mass Psychology of Fascism". Book by Wilhelm Reich, 1933.

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• I don't like rock. Honestly, I like to listen to it, but it's not for me. There's a lot of musical genres that I find interesting, but they don't suit me. It's one thing to listen to different genres, but to perform a genre that isn't yours is counterproductive.

  Luis Miguel

  Rocks, Interesting, Different

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• One ends up relying on pure musical inspiration, and failing that, the music won't lead to anything good, or it will alienate all but the most die-hard fans.

  Boris Vian

  Inspiration, Fans, Failing

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• Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy a pleasant tune; and there are probably more people really interested in mathematics than in music. Appearances suggest the contrary, but there are easy explanations. Music can be used to stimulate mass emotion, while mathematics cannot; and musical incapacity is recognized (no doubt rightly) as mildly discreditable, whereas most people are so frightened of the name of mathematics that they are ready, quite unaffectedly, to exaggerate their own mathematical stupidity

  G. H. Hardy

  Appreciation, Math, Names

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• Having a body that is like a musical instrument, open enough to be able to resonate, literally resonate with what is coming both from the inside and from the outside, so that one is able to surrender to powers greater than oneself.

  Marion Woodman

  Body, Able, Surrender

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• I don't ever balk at being considered a Motown person, because Motown is the greatest musical event that ever happened in the history of music

  Smokey Robinson

  Events, Motown, Persons

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• I think 'SNL' is so well-known for its musical performances, as well, and people really breaking into America through a really great performance on there. So I think me and Gotye are both really excited to be amongst such company. You know, it's great.

  Kimbra

  Thinking, America, People

  "Kimbra And Gotye 'excited' For 'SNL' Appearance" by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. April 13, 2012.

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• I'm so honored to be on this recording with Ann & Nancy Wilson. They are iconic and I've truly been one of their biggest fans since I was a kid. And what a perfect song to sing with them, since I adore Vince Gill and have been very proud for his commitment to his own musical vision. When we were recording at Nancy's house, and even though I'm friends with those girls now, I had to keep 'pinching' myself and marvel at how blessed my life is! It was a very PROUD moment for me.

  Deana Carter

  Girl, Song, Blessed

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• You'd find out more truth by just walking down the street with a musical instrument than by looking at any of the news outlets.

  Johnny Borrell

  News, Outlets, Instruments

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• I was chomping at the bit to get my career started - so after I took all the theater courses at Brooklyn College I enrolled in a two year program at AMDA in the city (The American Musical Dramatic Academy) I was there for 6 months and loved it.

  Didi

  College, Two, Years

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• If Hitler’s still alive, I hope he’s out of town with a musical.

  Larry Gelbart

  Alive, Towns, Stills

  Larry Gelbart (1998). “Laughing Matters: On Writing M-A-S-H, Tootsie, Oh, God!, and a Few Other Funny Things”, Random House Incorporated

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• Andy Gullahorn is my favorite new musical discovery of the past five years. He's a brilliant writer, a fine musician and a generous spirit.

  David LaMotte

  Past, Generous Spirit, Discovery

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