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“jazz is the expression of America's romantic self, its sensual potency, its lyrical force.”

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Author:Anais Nin

“Jazz is not a game of chance. Its sonorous disorder is only an appearance. It is an organized force obeying obscure laws, conforming to a secret technique, codified or not, and we discover that no one can become a virtuoso on the spur of the moment in this orchestra of 'noisemakers.”

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Author:Wanda Landowska

“Music has a great power for bringing people together. With so many forces in this world acting to drive wedges between people, it's important to preserve those things that help us experience our common humanity.”

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Author:Ted Turner

“Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.”

“Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.”

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Author:Ludwig van Beethoven

“It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.”

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Author:Albert Einstein

“Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.”

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Book:Just Listen

Source: Just Listen

“Don't only practise your art, but force your way into its secrets.”

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Author:Ludwig van Beethoven

“I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.”

Source: Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story

“If there's any such thing as a perfect man, I think John Coltrane was one. And I think that kind of perfection has to come from a greater force than there is here on earth.”

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Author:Elvin Jones