Extraordinary how potent cheap music is..

This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway..

This severe, ascetic music, calm and horizontal as the line of the ocean, monotonous by virtue of its serenity, anti-sensuous, and yet so intense in ….

Vaisey looked like a startled earwig..

I prefer true over happy now..

A thrumming of piano-strings beyond the gardens and through the elms. At length the melody steals into my being. I know not when it began to occupy m….

Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing..

Of course we're doing it for the money. We've always done it for the money..

If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it.

Playing guitar is a never-finished journey..

Hell, nobody knows where jazz is going to go. There may be a kid right now in Chitlin Switch, Georgia, who is going to come along and upset everybody..

I like to capture moments. It's like a photograph. Ten years from now you look at the photograph and you don't remember it but rather the whole week ….

From the metaphysical point of view there is nothing that can touch the formless except the art of music which in itself is formless..

I gave up my music because I had received from it all I had to receive. To serve God one must sacrifice the dearest thing, and I sacrificed my music,….

Rather than say I play Jazz, I simply say I play music..

I'm able to sometimes express things even more articulately on the piano than I am with singing..

Well my music was different in high school; I was singing about love—you know, things I don't care about anymore..

Singing is something you can do for a lifetime, and studies prove it is good for mental, physical, social and psychological health..

What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent..

Change is always happening. That's one of the wonderful things about Jazz music..

Art is beauty, and every exposition of art, whether it be music, painting, or the drama, should be subservient to that one great end. As long as natu….