The music critic, Huneber, could never quite make up his mind about a new symphony until he had seen the composer's mistress..
I am a black woman the music of my song some sweet arpeggio of tears is written in a minor key and I can be heard humming in the night Can be heard h….
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life..
The most effective preaching of the gospel is when it is accompanied by beautiful, appropriate music..
There has always been a strong relationship between music and religion. It is because they both plug directly into the heart and can have real power ….
Appalachia is still, for American musicians, a kind of fountain of youth we always go back to, the old home place to a group of artists who represent….
The piano is the social instrument par excellence... drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, the most massive of the devices by which….
Jazz is an idea that is more powerful than the details of its history..
Music was my joy, my home, the one place I felt happy and secure..
Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions..
music is not technique and melody, but the meaning of life itself, infinitely sorrowful and unbearably beautiful..
I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive..
Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong..
Sameron adion aso I shall sing a sweeter song tomorrow.
Silence is more musical than any song..
It's the singer not the song that makes the music move along..
Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven..
People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a Jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds..
Now, guitar was pretty cool. Everybody knew something on the guitar. So I wanted to play guitar, but I told my dad if he wanted me to keep studying s….
Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, wh….
I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust..