Music without words means leaving behind the mind. And leaving behind the mind is meditation. Meditation returns you to the source. And the sou….
You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you..
Far in the pillared dark Thrush music went- Almost like a call to come in To the dark and lament. But no, I was out for stars: I would not come in. I….
Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it..
True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time..
Life is a lot like jazz. It's best when you improvise..
I frequently hear music in the heart of noise..
Jazz is one of the best things that you can find in your life, it can always be your friend..
When people ask me how is it I was a musician, I facetiously say that I'm a firm believer in reincarnation and in a previous life I was Johann Sebast….
Can anybody be given creativity? No. Only equipment to develop it if it's in them in the first place..
Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience..
I think there are only three things that America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz mus….
Today's parents grew up with the silly notion that music was meant to be heard..
ELECTED Silence, sing to me And beat upon my whorlèd ear, Pipe me to pastures still and be The music that I care to hear..
I woke up this morning, smiled at the rising sun..
Truly to sing, that is a different breath..
Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour..
The mental imagery involved with pianistic tactilia is not related to the striking of individual keys but rather to the rites of passage between note….
I think pure country music includes rock and roll .. I've never been able to get into the further label of country-rock .. how can you define somethi….
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….
We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective safe taste of the Top 40, just looking for a little something we can call our own. But whe….