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“Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them.”

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“Music can change the world because it can change people.”

“There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.”

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Author:Frank Zappa

“Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.”

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Book:Real Frank Zappa Book

Source: Real Frank Zappa Book

“If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.”

“It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.”

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Book:The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

“If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.”

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Author:John Cage

“We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.”

“Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST.”

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Author:Frank Zappa

“Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.”

“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

“Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.”

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Book:Four Novels of George Eliot

Source: Four Novels of George Eliot

“It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.”

“Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.”

“Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.”

Source: Critical & Miscellaneous Essays: Collected & Republished

“An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.”

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Author:Edith Wharton

“You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow. (Oscar trying to talk his way out of a speeding ticket)”

“I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

“Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.”

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Book:Robert Browning's complete works

Source: Robert Browning's complete works

“There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play which is dangerously where you're going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven't created before.”

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Author:Dave Brubeck

“Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.”

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Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Starting in the middle of a musical sentence and moving in both directions at once.”

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Author:John Coltrane

“Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.”

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Author:William F. Buckley, Jr.

“music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts.”

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Author:T. S. Eliot

“There's music in the sighing of a reed; There's music in the gushing of a rill; There's music in all things, if men had ears; The earth is but the music of the spheres.”

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Author:Lord Byron

“Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.”

Source: The Way of All Flesh

“Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.”

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Author:Novalis

“Music is an addiction.”

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Author:Miles Davis

“Music is well said to be the speech of angels.”

Source: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished (first Time, 1839; Final, 1869)

“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.”

Source: Ludwig Van Beethoven for Classical Guitar - Tablature: Arranged for Guitar by John Trie

“If music be the food of love, play on.”

“Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.”

“Hell is full of musical amateurs.”

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Author:George Bernard Shaw

“The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking "Is there a meaning to music?" My answer would be, "Yes", And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be "No."”

“Jazz does not belong to one race or culture, but is a gift that America has given the world.”

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Author:Ahmad Alaadeen

“Jazz washes away the dust of every day life.”

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Author:Art Blakey

“The thing that is making jazz healthy today is that people are coming out of other backgrounds - from rock, folk, from ethnic music. It's changing the music, and for the better.”

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Author:Billy Taylor

“This is positively not an album to play while you do a doctorate thesis on "Bergson, Webern and Charles the Vicious, Paradox or Ambiguity?"”

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Author:Bob Brookmeyer

“The whole thing of being in music is not to control it but to be swept away by it. If you're swept away by it you can't wait to do it again and the same magical moments always come.”

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Author:Bobby Hutcherson

“My own feelings about the direction in which jazz should go are that there should be much less stress on technical exhibitionism and much more on emotional content, on what might be termed humanity in music and the freedom to say all that you want.”

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Author:Booker Little

“Not to deny that it is a thinking people's music, but when I listen to music if I ever catch myself thinking, I'm in trouble--I know something is wrong.”

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Author:Brian Blade

“Hipness is not a state of mind, It's a fact of life!”

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Author:Cannonball Adderley

“What's interesting about a person without problems?”

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Author:Carla Bley

“Improvisation is the ability to talk to oneself.”

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Author:Cecil Taylor

“Doesn't that fool know I recorded that song because I like it?”

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Author:Cecil Taylor

“Thelonius Monk went over to Bird and Bud Powell and said, 'I told you guys to act crazy, but I didn't tell you to fall in love with the act. You're really crazy now.'”

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Author:Charles Mingus

“In the midst of creating, a person is raised to another level of consciousness that doesn't have that much to do with everyday thinking. It's as if you could imagine life before there were words.”

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Author:Charlie Haden

“I'm very glad to have met you. I like your playing very much.”

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Author:Charlie Parker

“Respect your own creativity and respect the creativity and creative space of other people.”

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Author:Danny Barker

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