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Write the music your inside-you needs your outside-you to hear.
If you write songs you have an idea how they're going to sound.
Time is the best of critics; and patience the best of teachers.
Oh, how hard it must be to die anywhere but in ones birthplace.
The first rap record came out in '79, but hip-hop began in '69.
If you think you're boring your audience, go slower not faster.
The call of love sounds very hollow among these immobile rocks.
Perhaps the better word is emotional yes, I am an emotional man
If you come from Paris to Budapest you think you are in Moscow.
Don't waste your energy on the ugly. Save it for the beautiful.
Sometimes memorable music doesn't necessarily have to be a hit.
All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
Jazz is an art that takes decades to appreciate and understand.
A chic type, a rough type, an odd type - but never a stereotype
Technology is neutral, but it all depends on the way we use it.
I wanted to create a bridge between experimental music and pop.
Lately I've been runnin' on faith. What else can a poor boy do?
The red and white and starry blue Is freedom's shield and hope.
The way I think about the practicing, it is my undercover work.
We are all part of a tradition, at least we depend on the past.
That's kind of my goal: to build a new row of meaningful tones.
Do you think I give a damn about your and your pathetic violin?
I know of no more sacred duty than to rear and educate a child.
Love, and love alone, is capable of giving thee a happier life.
When I woke up this morning, I found I'd turned into my mother.
Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.
No one believes in God any more, but everyone believes in Bach.
I guess many game music fans prefer original soundtrack albums.
Every second, ten stars set behind the black water in the west.
Teaching is a sacred profession. And art is a form of teaching.
Sometimes colleagues in performance are absolutely astonishing.
With music you can express any emotion, you can paint pictures.
I knew the whistle of each of the river boats on the Tennessee.
The greater the emotional intensity, the greater the simplicity.
Trane was the father. Pharoah was the son. I was the holy ghost.
There are so few directors who are musical who appreciate music.
I'm a ladies' man who can never make love. I'm resigned to that.
In Spring! In the creation of art it must be as it is in Spring!
When a man's making love, the last thing he thinks about is war.
I ask the Lord in Heaven above / What is this thing called Love?
It's not that music is too imprecise for words, but too precise.
The guitar is a wonderful instrument which is understood by few.
Oh, how hard it must be to die anywhere but in one's birthplace.
This is not a happy time for this kind of music in this country.
There is no room in the world, as you say, for second rate work.
See, the night doth enfold us! See, all the world lies sleeping!
As rich as Cincinnati was in live music, New York was even more.
Perhaps the better word is emotional yes, I am an emotional man.
But that's fine, because I like to have control of the ambience.
Music forced into the air you breathe is an invasion of privacy!