Jazz, isn't that just a series of mistakes diguised as…

Writers and musicians know well the importance of extensive reading for successful writing or extensive listening for musical composition. Likewise, visual artists... understand that…

— Paul Laseau

Musical compositions, it should be remembered, do not inhabit certain countries, certain museums, like paintings and statues. The Mozart Quintet is not shut up…

— Henri Rabaud

The point of recapitulation in the first movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony unleashes one of the most horrifyingly violent episodes in the history of…

— Susan McClary

When I create I don't think in technical or mathematical terms until the idea is formulated Musical composition is formulated in improvisation. Once a…

— Aaron Zigman

There is a kinship between music and painting - with the same words used to describe both, as when a musical composition is said…

— Alton Tobey

As sounds in a musical composition can be used not to express physical objects but ideas, emotions, harmonies, rhythmic orders and most any expression…

— Wynn Bullock

Rock music was the death of jazz in a way. I know there's a bunch of people who say jazz isn't dead, but I…

— Jamie Hince

In every art beginners must start with models of those who have practiced the same art before them. And it is not only a…

— Ruth Whitman

It is a shallow criticism that would define poetry as confined to literary productions in rhyme and meter rhythm. The written poem is only…

— John Ruskin

The Analytical Engine] might act upon other things besides number, were objects found whose mutual fundamental relations could be expressed by those of the…

— Ada Lovelace

“For the artist, the goal of the painting or musical composition is not to convey literal truth, but an aspect of a universal truth…

— Anonymous

Jazz needs the help. It's the more sophisticated music. All the other music is on the TV, but jazz isn't.

— Billy Higgins

Jazz isn't as profitable for labels like Hip hop or Rap. Jazz needs subsidies to continue, just like European classical works of Bach and…

— Jimmy Heath

Jazz isn't what you do; it's how you do it.

— Fats Waller

Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz…

— Nat Wolff