Philosophy is the highest music..
What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of bo….
Love is friendship set to music..
I love music. For me, music is morning coffee. It's mood medicine. It's pure magic. A good song is like a good meal-I just want to inhale it and then….
My mother always told me, even if a song has been done a thousand times, you can still bring something of your own to it. I'd like to think I did tha….
Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state..
I got rhythm, I got music, I got my man- Who could ask for anything more?.
O Black and unknown bards of long ago, How came your lips to touch the sacred fire?.
music alone can abolish differences of language or culture between two people and evoke something indestructible within them..
The cause of freedom, in music as elsewhere, is now very nearly triumphant; but at a time when its adversaries were many and powerful, we can hardly ….
It reveals us to ourselves, it represents those modulations and temperamental changes which escape all verbal analysis, it utters what must else rema….
The value of music is not dazzling yourself and others with technique..
Jazz to me is the spirit of freedom. I mean real freedom. Freedom to explore. Freedom to express. Freedom to pour out your guts..
Creativity shouldn't be following radio; it should be the other way around..
Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music..
You can practice to learn a technique, but I'm more interested in conceiving of something in the moment..
It is people's hearts that move the age..
Bach opens a vista to the universe. After experiencing him, people feel there is meaning to life after all..
I am focused on the work. I am constantly creating. I am a busy girl. I live and breathe my work. I love what I do. I believe in the message. There's….
I direct a lot of TV commercials and music videos..
I will never again play anything that does not have social significance. We American jazz musicians of African descent have proved beyond all doubt t….