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“The people who really got me off were dealing with the musical potential of their instrument.”
Source: Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story
“I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity.”
“Blues is to jazz what yeast is to bread--without it, it's flat.”
“Traveling with a big band is like being an inmate in a traveling zoo.”
Source: The Stardust Road & Sometimes I Wonder: The Autobiography of Hoagy Carmichael
“If everyone liked what I did, I probably wouldn't be playing anything of depth.”
“[Jazz singing] is like pornography. You can't say what it is, but you know it when you see it.”
“Genius is a word too often tossed around in musical circles.”
“I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music.”
Source: Mark Twain of the Enterprise: newspaper articles & other documents, 1862-1864
“Only become a musician if there is absolutely no other way you can make a living.”
“Music is enough for a lifetime - but a lifetime is not enough for music.”
“Without music, life is a journey through a desert.”
Source: Beach Music
“If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.”
“Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche
“Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!”
Source: L'allegro, Ed Il Penseroso: Set to Musick by Mr. Handel
Source: Divisadero
“There are still so many beautiful things to be said in C major.”
Source: The Blind Assassin
“Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.”
“My first relationship to any kind of musical situation is as a listener.”