Music can be soothing or invigorating ennobling or vulgarizing, philosophical or orgiastic. It has powers of evil as well as for good..

When it came time to hire a guitar player ... I didn't even have to think about it ... Mike Bloomfield was the best guitar player I'd ever heard..

Nothing recalls the past like music..

Thelonius Monk went over to Bird and Bud Powell and said, 'I told you guys to act crazy, but I didn't tell you to fall in love with the act. You're r….

I make movies for money, exclusively for money..

You have to practice improvisation, let no one kid you about it!.

I don't find the songs; they find me. I just strum my guitar and wait for a lyric to come..

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music..

Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even st….

Invest yourself in everything you do. There's fun in being serious..

Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudibl….

Thus, if a composer wants to produce music that is relevant to his contemporaries, his chief problem is not really musical, though it may seem to him….

We must ask why apparently general musical abilities should be restricted to a chosen few in societies supposed to be culturally more advanced. Doe….

Tshikona is lwa-ha-masia-khali-i-tshi-vhila, "the time when people rush to the scene of the dance and leave their pots to boil over." Tshikona "makes….

music alone can abolish differences of language or culture between two people and evoke something indestructible within them..

If my extensive collection of all 53 Now That’s What I Call Music compilations is any indication, I am both qualified and honored to join Ludacris in….

Free improvisation, in addition to being a highly skilled musical craft, is open to use by almost anyone-beginners, children, and non-musicians. The ….

The most stupendous miracle in all music..

The harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed, Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls As if that soul were fled. So sleeps the pride of f….

Those are miracles that no merely human brain can work. The artist is merely the sound conduct of a Force that dictates to him what he should do..

Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul..