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“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.”

“Sculpture and painting are very justly called liberal arts; a lively and strong imagination, together with a just observation, being absolutely necessary to excel in either; which, in my opinion, is by no means the case of music, though called a liberal art, and now in Italy placed even above the other two--a proof of the decline of that country.”

“The mastery of one's phonemes may be compared to the violinist's mastery of fingering. The violin string lends itself to a continuous gradation of tones, but the musician learns the discrete intervals at which to stop the string in order to play the conventional notes. We sound our phonemes like poor violinists, approximating each time to a fancied norm, and we receive our neighbor's renderings indulgently, mentally rectifying the more glaring inaccuracies.”

“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”

“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”

“Of course we've lost so many superstars who've made jazz what it is. We've lost so many musicians who created new things and changed the way we think about music and who took jazz to a new level. So jazz is suffering from that. But we still have a lot of incredible people playing jazz in the world. We have a lot of people leading the way.”

“I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.”

“The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.”

“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”

“Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!”

“Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.”

“I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.”

“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.”

“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.”

“Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.”

“If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn.”