Jazz is improvisation and syncopation, with resilience and flow, with earthy elegance, nuance and subtlety, with the integrity of individual expressi….

I sit down to the piano regularly at nine-o'clock in the morning and Mesdames les Muses have learned to be on time for that rendezvous..

If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on?.

Record company execs eat their young, I swear to God..

Music is my religion. Music is the only thing that has never failed me. People let you down, music won't..

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable..

The human attitude of which classical music is the expression is always the same; it is always based on the same kind of insight into life and strive….

Music has been called the speech of the angels; I will go farther and call it the speech of God Himself..

When you listen to someone improvise, the notes that are played are only half the story..

I saw the dance as a vision of ineffable power. A man could, with dignity and a towering majesty, dance. Not mince, cavort, do "fancy dancing" or "sh….

Hell is a half-filled auditorium..

I wonder about the trees. Why do we wish to bear Forever the noise of these More than another noise So close to our dwelling place?.

I look at people like musical instruments. I set people to music..

My number one goal ... is to preserve the music industry. The only answer is the Internet. ...none of the systems are more effective than having a pe….

Debussy--A pretty girl with one blue eye and one brown one..

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song..

I have sat through an Italian opera, til, for sheer pain, and inexplicable anguish, I have rushed out into the noisiest places of the crowded street,….

Colorblind racism is the new racial music most people dance to, the 'new racism' is subtle, institutionalized and seemingly nonracial..

People sometimes forget that jazz was built not only in the minds of the great ones but on the backs of the ordinary ones — ordinary musicians..

People always sound so proud when they announce they know nothing of music..

You cannot hear music and noise at the same time..