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“Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpointists to hack post-horses; therefore be advised, let well alone and remember the old Italian proverb: Chi sa più, meno sa Who knows most, knows least.”

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Book:Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke: in Verbindung mit den Mozartstädten, Augsburg, Salzburg und Wien

Source: Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke: in Verbindung mit den Mozartstädten, Augsburg, Salzburg und Wien

“I don't just write music to esthetically satisfy somebody. The reason I write music is that I feel it's a vehicle or channel which leads to your true self, your essence.”

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Author:George Russell

“The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence.”

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Book:The World as Will and Representation

Source: The World as Will and Representation

“I feel that Jazz improvisation is the ultimate. You have to create on the spot, the essence of this music.”

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Author:Sonny Rollins

“Music at its essence is what gives us memories.”

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Author:Stevie Wonder

“All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!”

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Book:The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle

Source: The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle

“If they think they are doing something new, they ought to do what I do every day - spend at least two hours every day listening to Johann Sebastian Bach and, man, it's all there. If they want to improvise around a theme,which is the essence of jazz, they should learn from the master. He never wastes a note, and he knows where every note is going and when to bring it back. Some of these cats go way out and forget where they began or what they started to do. Bach will clear it up for them.”

“Music acts on the whole of the organism like a magic force which suppresses the understanding and irresistibly takes possession of the entire being. To insist on analysing this force is to destroy its very essence.”

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Author:Emile Jaques-Dalcroze

“In essence, String Theory describes space and time, matter and energy, gravity and light, indeed all of God's creation as music.”

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Author:Roy H. Williams