Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you..
I can't tell my future, so I'm going to tell my past..
If you hit a wrong note, then make it right by what you play afterward..
I don't sing country music because I'm not capable of singing other kinds of music; I sing it because I think it's the most beautiful kind of music t….
When I was studying at Berklee, I got the feeling I couldn't play the [guitar] at all, because I could not use my own things as they didn't fit any s….
At last my love has come along. My lonely days are over and life is like a song..
The music was thunder and joy. Lightning bolts of happiness and praise, foot-stomping, dance-shouting, good-feeling singing from the soul..
It has been said that if the opening phrase of a classical minuet can be fitted to the words "Are you the O'Reilly who owns this hotel?" then it was ….
Life on the road is murder. It's as though life begins and ends when you have your horn in your mouth..
Music allows the great opportunity to play with people you love..
Playing scales is like a boxer skipping rope or punching a bag. It's not the thing in itself; it's preparatory to the activity.
[On being asked how it felt to be the first female conductor of the Boston Symphony:] I've been a woman for a little more than fifty years, and I've ….
Words created divergencies between beings, because their precise meanings put an opinion around the idea. Music only retains the highest and purest s….
Nothing is better than music; when it takes us out of time, it has done more for us than we have the right to hope for: it has broadened the limits o….
As far as the execution is concerned ... the most frequent and most serious mistake is to follow the music instead of preceding it..
There are still so many beautiful things to be said in C major..
It doesn't have to be happy music to be inspiring..
I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartets, chamber music, and cantatas..
It’s like a language. You learn the alphabet, which are the scales. You learn sentences, which are the chords. And then you talk extemporaneously wit….
Other than conversation, no other art form can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction like Jazz..
Music is expression of harmony in sound. Love is the expression of harmony in life..