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“When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.”
“I started a MySpace teen lit discussion group and invited people to join.”
“Maybe that's the whole teen oeuvre, you know covering people in disgusting bodily fluids and whatnot.”
“Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.”
“I don't come from a film background. I haven't learned anything about films or film-making. But I have a thirst to know everything about my profession. I want to learn about cinematography, about e...”
“I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.”
“Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.”
“It's very easy for people to put out music.”
“I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.”
“Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.”
“No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't 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 should be played.”
“The ideal situation would be to bypass all of the drama and mayhem and just get the music right to the people. I'm confident that we'll eventually figure it out.”
“I would like to see more African-American singers as part of our opera companies. If you take music and the arts out of the public schools, then you're going to lose a lot of people that you might ...”
“Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.”
“My whole thing is not just to play music for people, but to make them part of the evening.”
“I use music as a medium to talk to people.”
“Music has to be written while people are still excited about a particular melodic or rhythmic sequence. The idea doesn't come out the same if we're not really excited about it.”
“It's about the music and that's it. I'm not an entertainer. But I do entertain people, see what I mean?”
“The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it.”
