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There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play, which is dangerously, where you’re going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven't created before. —Dave Brubeck
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The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking "Is there a meaning to music?" My answer would be, "Yes", And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be "No."
— Aaron Copland -
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
— Abraham Maslow -
When the music changes, so does the dance.
— African proverb -
A master drummer must have seven eyes.
— African proverb -
The truest expression of a people is in its dance and music.
— Agnes de Mille -
Jazz does not belong to one race or culture, but is a gift that America has given the world.
— Ahmad Alaadeen -
New Orleans is the only place I know of where you ask a little kid what he wants to be and instead of saying "I want to be a policeman," or "I want to be a fireman," he says, I want to be a musician".
— Alan Jaffe -
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice.
— Albert Einstein -
It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception. (When asked about the theory of relativity)
— Albert Einstein -
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible,is music.
— Aldous Huxley -
A real leader faces the music, even if he doesn't like the tune.
— Anon -
Hawk, I heard that record you made with Sonny Rollins! Don't ever do it again!
— anonymous fan to Coleman Hawkins -
Jazz washes away the dust of every day life.
— Art Blakey -
Jazz is... One of life's greatest gifts: fun found within surprise.
— Author Unknown -
Jazz is... An open-ended music designed for open minds.
— Author Unknown -
If it's too loud, you're too old!
— Barrythemod -
Ahhh... cartoons America's only native art form. I don't count jazz because it sucks.
— Bart Simpson -
If Charlie Parker were alive today, somebody would try to cut a disco single with and try and get him to sell three million.
— Ben Sidran -
Art is self expression. If you are expressing someone else's personality, that is not art.
— Bennie Wallace -
Anyone can learn what Louis Armstrong knows about music in a few weeks. Nobody could learn to play like him in a thousand years.
— Benny Green
