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“I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.”

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Author:James Brown

“When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.”

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Author:Bob Hope

“It's like soul music, isn't it all soul music? Otherwise what is it, non-soul music? I-have-no-soul music? Soulless music? People need to put a name on something to identify it, and I understand it.”

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Author:Mark Lanegan

“My official cruise ship band name is now A Band On Ship.”

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Author:Rob Schwimmer

“Bob Marley isn't my name. I don't even know my name yet.”

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Book:Listen to Bob Marley: The Man, the Music, the Revolution

Source: Listen to Bob Marley: The Man, the Music, the Revolution

“Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.”

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Book:The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard

Source: The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard

“A name doesn't make the music. It's just called that to differentiate it from other types of music.”

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Author:Art Blakey

“I didn't know the right names for anything at first, but I knew what knocked me out. Changes... man I dug.”

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Author:Roy Eldridge

“Just give a drum roll, announce my name & I come out & sing. I have a contract that says I'm a singer. So I sing.”

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Author:Tony Bennett

“At a very early age I began to thump on the piano alone, and it was not long before I was able to pick out a few tunes? I also learned the names of the notes in both clefs, but I preferred not be hampered by notes.”

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Book:The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson: Social, political, and literary essays

Source: The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson: Social, political, and literary essays

“He was Jimi Hendrix! He didn't sound like anybody else but himself. He was like Charlie Parker in his way of playing, he played well, he was a person that made waves. When you heard Jimi Hendrix you knew it was Jimi Hendrix, he introduced himself in his instrument... You know, many radio stations play records and a lot of the times they don't call out the names who you just listened to, but when they play Jimi Hendrix, you don't have to tell me, [you know] it's Jimi Hendrix.”

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Author:B. B. King