Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering..

I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others..

Traveling with a big band is like being an inmate in a traveling zoo..

I smash guitars because I like them..

So, maybe you don't see blues so much in Styx's music but it is definitely part of Tommy's early music..

The book of love has music in it In fact that's where music comes from Some of it is just transcendental Some of it is just really dumb.

Drugs is like getting up and having a cup of tea in the morning..

To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music..

Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking. . . . the new inventive phrases we make up to describe things - a….

It's time to take a look at my failures and stop calling them successes. Now I can start working at something that can use me best..

I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music..

I don't like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat..

When I was studying... there weren't any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and I had the technique to do it. People have heard my mu….

Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you..

I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer..

Music acts on the whole of the organism like a magic force which suppresses the understanding and irresistibly takes possession of the entire being. ….

When you said you were a terrible singer, I thought you were being humble. But you weren't..

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours..

Perfume was first created to mask the stench of foul and offensive odors... Spices and bold flavorings were created to mask the taste of putrid and r….

music is not technique and melody, but the meaning of life itself, infinitely sorrowful and unbearably beautiful..

Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing..