Humans Quote by Branford Marsalis

False notes [on the piano] are human. Why does everything have to be perfect? You know, perfection itself is imperfection.

— Vladimir Horowitz

The more perfect music we have, the more attractive the peculiarities and anomalies of human performance become. Perfection is a second rate idea.

— T Bone Burnett

“Humans are perfectly Imperfect”

— Raghu Venkatesh

I'm a firm believer that embracing the imperfections of making music is so much of what makes something groove. Getting rid of these imperfections…

— Jacob Collier

There is too much emphasis on technical perfection nowadays, and not enough on what music is actually about - irony, joy, human suffering, love.

— Mstislav Rostropovich

Jazz, isn't that just a series of mistakes diguised as musical composition?

— Michael McKean

Music really isn’t supposed to be perfect. It’s all about people relating to each other and doing something that’s really from the soul. It…

— Tom Petty

Music doesn't need to be perfect, but you'll know when it's right.

— Kristian Bush

“Resolution. Musicians know all about that, don’t they? Pieces of music seek resolution, have to end on a particular note, or it sounds all…

— Alexander McCall Smith

There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.

— Miles Davis

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the…

— Joseph Addison

You're just sort of searching for this 'thing' and sometimes you get it and sometimes you don't. All music is imperfect, but in jazz…

— John Abercrombie