The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial..
The duty of youth is to challenge corruption..
Music is a defining element of character..
It would be nice to hear someone accidentally whistle something of mine, somewhere, just once..
If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week..
I don't care about the rules, if I don't break the rules at least 10x every song then I'm not doing my job..
Love the road of your life... There is so much beauty to see, so much music to hear, so many flowers to smell, so many thoughts to be thought, so muc….
Jazz is so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself..
If songs were lines in a conversation, the situation would be fine . . ..
I'm thought of as this pissy, complaining, freaked-out schizophrenic who wants to kill himself all the time..
I'm not listening for song ideas; I'm listening for soul ideas..
You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the musi….
I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn't get bored anywhere..
Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel..
When people ask me what 'American Pie' means, I tell them it means I don't ever have to work again if I don't want to..
The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on ….
There is music in all things, if men had ears..
It's always Jazz. You can put a new dress on her, a new hat, but no matter what kind of clothes she's the same old broad..
This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before..
I'm warning you with peace and love I have too much to do. So no more fan mail. Thank you, thank you. And no objects to be signed, nothing. Peace and….
Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing..