“I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.”
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“I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.”
“Music is forever music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.”
“All music is beautiful.”
“If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.”
“Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.”
“Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.”
“Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.”
“Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.”
“Where words fail, music speaks.”
“The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.”
“When words leave off, music begins.”
“There's nothing like music to relieve the soul and uplift it.”
“No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.”
“He has Van Gogh's ear for music.”
“Music is love in search of a word.”
“I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds.”
“Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.”
“Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.”
“My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.”
“Music should be your escape.”
“Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.”
“My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.”
“Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.”