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“music is not technique and melody, but the meaning of life itself, infinitely sorrowful and unbearably beautiful.”

Beautiful Music Music Is Technique Meaning Of Life Melody Sorrowful

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“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.”

Moments Law Games Force Chance Secret Music Jazz Appearance Technique Organized Disorder Obscure Conform Orchestra Spurs Obeying Virtuoso Spur Of The Moment

Author:Wanda Landowska

“The value of music is not dazzling yourself and others with technique.”

Values Music Music Is Jazz Technique Dazzling

Author:Herbie Hancock

“You can practice to learn a technique, but I'm more interested in conceiving of something in the moment.”

Moments Music Practice Technique Conceiving

Author:Herbie Hancock

“How pleasant it is to be ignorant! Not to know exactly who Mozart was, to ignore his origin, his influence, the details of his technique! To just let him lead one by the hand.”

Knows Hands Music Influence Details Technique Ignorant Pleasant

Book:Short stories of Latin America

Source: Short stories of Latin America

“When I was studying... there weren't any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and I had the technique to do it. People have heard my music and heard the classic in it, so I have become known as a black classical pianist.”

People Choices Black Known Music Study Heard Technique Classic Concerts Intuitive Pianist

Author:Nina Simone

“Well, the way I play, I try not to be a 'repeater pencil', ya dig? Originality's the thing. You can have tone and technique and a lot of other things but without originality you ain't really nowhere. Gotta be original.”

Way Trying Wells Play Music Originals Jazz Musical Technique Tone Originality Pencils

Author:Lester Young

“All of the technique doesn't matter... only if the feeling is right.”

Ifs Matter Feelings Music Jazz Technique

Author:John Coltrane