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“Just because I'm playing jazz I don't forget about me. I play or write me, the way I feel, through jazz, or whatever.”

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Author:Charles Mingus

“I never believed in a set routine. It should depend on how you feel, because you play what you feel.”

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Author:Buddy Rich

“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

“Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.”

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Author:Yip Harburg

“I think that a musician is like a doctor, he's supposed to heal people and make them feel better.”

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Author:Steve Turre

“Regardless of what you play, the biggest thing is keeping the feel going.”

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Author:Wes Montgomery

“Your sound is you & what you really feel inside.”

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Author:Clark Terry

“To work is to feel alive.”

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Author:Tony Bennett

“The audience should feel they are hearing the future, that is arriving just on time.”

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Author:Kurt Elling

“If only the whole world could feel the power of harmony.”

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Author:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“There is nothing like walking to get the feel of a country. A fine landscape is like a piece of music; it must be taken at the right tempo. Even a bicycle goes too fast”

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Book:The House of Europe

Source: The House of Europe

“May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason? The musician feels mathematics, the mathematician thinks music: music the dream, mathematics the working life.”

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Book:The Collected Mathematical Papers of James Joseph Sylvester:

Source: The Collected Mathematical Papers of James Joseph Sylvester:

“Being the foundation is what I live for, some people call it being in the pocket, some people call it a groove. I think it's the heartbeat. There's nothing that feels better than that.”

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Author:Tommy Shannon

“But know this: as far as a music culture goes, EDM is the one who will accept the kids on the outliers, the ones who get bullied, the ones who feel like they may not quite fit in. This community is exceptional in its ability to bond all types together, and I am not exaggerating when I say it saves lives. Our audience is intelligent and kind, discriminating only in regards to which sound they like best. Our audience is unprecedented in their drive to proactively support each other.”

“All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws.”

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Author:John Coltrane

“When I’m creating at the piano, I tend to feel happy; but - the eternal dilemma - how can we be happy amid the unhappiness of others? I'd do everything I could to give everyone a moment of happiness. That's what's at the heart of my music.”

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Author:Nino Rota

“One day you pick up the guitar and you feel like a great master, and the next day you feel like a fool. It’s because we’re different every day, but the guitar is always the same…beautiful.”

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Author:Tommy Emmanuel

“All I try to do is write music that feels meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion behind it.”

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Author:Bruce Springsteen

“In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain.”

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Author:George Szell