That's what music is: entertainment. The more you put yourself into it, the more of you comes out in it..

I am a black woman the music of my song some sweet arpeggio of tears is written in a minor key and I can be heard humming in the night Can be heard h….

Once I could play what I heard inside me, that's when I was born..

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom..

If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn..

Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you..

I got rhythm, I got music, I got my man- Who could ask for anything more?.

I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes..

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..

A prophet is not without honor except in his own country among his own people..

The world speaks to me in colors, my soul answers in music..

It's a great thing about being a musician; you don't stop until the day you die, you can improve. So it's a wonderful thing to do..

i won't be happy until i'm famous like God.

I love music more than I love people..

Ask anyone. If it hadn't been for Elvis, I don't know where popular music would be. He was the one that started it all off, and he was definitely the….

We are the ones who take this thing called music and line it up with this thing called time. We are the ticking, we are the pulsing, we are underneat….

Classical music is far from boring - it has all the blood, energy, the sinister dark side, rhythm that rock music has, and all the refined, subtle se….

There's nothing like the eureka moment of knocking off a song that didn't exist before - I won't compare it to sex, but it lasts longer..

The more you accept herb, the more you accept Rastafari..

Was awakened in the night to a strain of music dying away, - passing travellers singing. My being was so expanded and infinitely and divinely related….

An artist should write for himself & not for an audience. If the audience likes it, great. If not, they can keep away..