In this world we've created Where this place that we live in a blink of an eye the darkness slips in Love lights the world Unites the love that's….

NOISE, n. A stench in the ear. Undomesticated music. The chief product and authenticating sign of civilization..

The judgment of music, like the inspiration for it, must come slow and measured, if it comes with truth..

Music is the most abstract of the arts and it expresses the sound of the universe itself. These are the real rhythms that stimulate the artist's mind….

gospel singing ... is the rawest, sweetest, uninhibited and exquisite sounds a person can make or hear. It isn't music, it's an entire experience you….

He was Jimi Hendrix! He didn't sound like anybody else but himself. He was like Charlie Parker in his way of playing, he played well, he was a person….

For me, my voice and music was always an outlet. Growing up in an unstable environment and whatnot, music was my only real escape..

The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a hot night or somethin….

I can't understand guys who just have to have your autograph. What do you do when you get home, take it out & look at it?.

Man, as long as people want to hear Jazz, I'll give it to them..

In the course of an average lifetime anyone growing up in a house with such a clock will hear the tune over a million times..

I'm very much a traditionalist, but I think it's important to know about tradition so that you can evolve the music you are deciding to make..

Making dances is an act of progress; it is an act of growth, an act of music, an act of teaching, an act of celebration, an act of joy..

My discussion with Keith Richards about the creative process led me to believe that there's an invisible presence of a stream of ever-flowing creativ….

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman..

The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with..

We're constantly being bombarded by insulting and humiliating music, which people are making for you the way they make those Wonder Bread products. J….

I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude..

I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man: wine is not so noble a liquor; and think of dashing the hopes of a morningwith a cup of warm c….

If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC.

It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music….