Art was not created as a way to riches. Strive to become a true artist; all else will take care of itself..

It's a creative enterprise, just like art, just like painting, music. Creating something can be done in different categories, so to do it in film is ….

Christmas When Music Almost Killed the World.

Jazz music is a style, not compositions; any kind of music may be played in Jazz if one has the knowledge..

Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings..

It is evidently known, beyond contradiction, that New Orleans is the cradle of Jazz and I, myself, happened to be the creator in the year 1902..

I have never acknowledged the difference between serious music and light music. There is only good music and bad music..

You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you..

No composer has yet caught this rhythm of America - it is too mighty for the ears of most..

Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife..

Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow..

Country Music is great music because it really comes from real life experiences. It is such a great haven for reality..

I play the way I do cause it allows me to come up w/ the sickest sounds possible. That's the point now isn't it?.

I've never really been a traditional country kind of guy. I wanted my music to sound more like the end of the '90s and to have the kind of great musi….

Hip-hop has done so much for racial relations, and I don't think it's given the proper credit. It has changed America immensely. I'm going to make a ….

Would that I could be the peacemaker in your soul, that I might turn the discord and the rivalry of your elements into oneness and melody..

In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of..

No doubt soaring cathedrals, stirring music, moving stories and parables, help a bit. But by far the most important variable determining your religio….

Not the rich viol, trump, cymbal, nor horn, Guitar, nor cittern, nor the pining flute, Are half so sweet as tender human words..

I never believed in a set routine. It should depend on how you feel, because you play what you feel..

My driving philosophy about making music is that you can reduce it all down to one note if that note is played with the right kind of sincerity..