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- Since I didn't have any kind of formal training, it didn't make any difference to me if I was listening to Lightnin' Slim, or a…
- The richest people in the world aren't particularly smart or happy. And the happiest people in the world aren't particularly smart or rich.… That leaves…
- Gimme the tune. Do I like this tune? Does it sound like another tune that I like? The more familiar it is, the better I…
- Guitar playing, as currently understood, has more to do with sports than it does to do with music. It's an Olympic challenge type of situation.…
- Jazz is the music of unemployment.
- Rock music was never written for or performed for conservative tastes.
- The manner in which Americans ''consume'' music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for…
- Do we really want to know how Michael Jackson makes his music? No. We want to understand why he needs the bones of the Elephant…
- Conducting" is when you draw "designs" in the nowhere-with a stick, or with your hands-which are interpreted as "instructional messages" by guys wearing bow ties…
- Believe it or not, there are places in the world where music is important. There are places in the world where all the arts are…
- Our criminal institutions are full of creeps like you who do wrong things, and many of them were driven to these crimes by the horrible…
- Just be glad you don't live in one of those little countries where at this very moment, music is severely restricted, or as it is…
- Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
- There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.
- Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.
- Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.
- A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.
- All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.
- Music is always a commentary on society.
- Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny.
- Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
- Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music…
- Music is the only religion that delivers the goods.
- The creation and destruction of harmonic and 'statistical' tensions is essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or improvisation) which remains consonant and…
- The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse.
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