I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about Jazz..
Music is the softest cushion in the world..
I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others..
Music was not invented by the composer, but found..
Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning rewa….
An animal can learn to fight, but to sing beautiful things and make people believe them..
I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws..
If you're going to make a mistake, make it loud so everybody else sounds wrong..
Not only was he not mad, but he was a musician, and my favorite men had always been musicians or writers or anything that involved the creative proce….
Too bad people can't always be playing music, maybe then there wouldn't be any more wars..
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music..
And I don't regret the rain Or the nights I felt the pain Or the tears I had to cry Some of those times along the way. Every road I had to take, ….
Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique..
There is a big, beautiful world that could be destroyed by selfishness and foolishness. We musicians have it without power to save it. In a small way….
Sing again, with your dear voice revealing. A tone Of some world far from ours, where music and moonlight and feeling are one..
I think I was supposed to play jazz..
Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music..
Singing, it's like it's like loving somebody, it's a supreme emotional and physical experience..
Music begins where the possibilities of language end..
What a pity flowers can utter no sound!-A singing rose, a whispering violet, a murmuring honeysuckle ... oh, what a rare and exquisite miracle would ….
If you pour some music on whatever's wrong, it'll sure help out..