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“Some people make tunes, but it is lines that run like moving messages through my head. Whatever else I am saying and doing often has no bearing on this inner, verbal life.”
“I don't read such boring things. Life is too short.”
“There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is. ~William Shakespeare”
“Risk the risks.”
“I love science, and it pains me to think that so many are terrified of the subject or feel that choosing science means you cannot also choose compassion, or the arts, or be awed by nature. Science ...”
“If music serves to convey feelings through the interaction of physical gestures and sound, the musician needs his brain state to match the emotional state he is trying to express. Although the stud...”
“Music had always had the ability to help ease my suffering. I sang a great deal at home. I sang to myself and to Lord Imery. Sometimes, I played the harp to accompany myself. Learning such a gracef...”
“Music is a complete evocation like a smell. It can bring an entire memory and feeling back to you in a rush. Much more complete than even a photograph. You allow yourself a certain visual distance...”
“At first the solitudecharmed me like a prelude,but so much music wounded me.”
“...music, music, records, records, noise to cover silence.”
“A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side.”
“Anything that breaks silence is music...!”
“Music is the universe where everything is allowed”
“All truthful music is familiar to the ear, for its notes were written into our souls long ago.”
“What's all this about sin, eh?''That,' I said, very sick. 'Using Ludwig van like that. He did no harm to anyone. Beethoven just wrote music.' And then I was really sick and they had to bring a bowl...”
“A lot of people ask me where music is going today. I think it's going in short phrases. If you listen, anybody with an ear can hear that. Music is always changing. It changes because of the times a...”
“Stop being afraid of what could go wrong and think of what could go right.”
“True perfection has to be imperfect. I know that sounds foolish, but it's true.”
“It don't matter about all that anyway," Armstrong added. "You think it do, but it don't. A man ain't just his one talent. Lil Louis needs you. And Jones look to you like you his brother. You got th...”
“As I have said before, I had no illusions about my performing ability. But I did not know that my despair was brought about not because I had no talent but because I did not know how to develop it.”
