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• Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Clothes, Shelter, Want

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• 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

  Inspirational, Peace, Work

  Abraham Harold Maslow, Edward Hoffman (1996). “Future visions: the unpublished papers of Abraham Maslow”, Sage Publications, Inc

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• Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny.

  Frank Zappa

  Smell, Free Jazz, Rock N Roll

  Song: Be-Bop Tango, 1974

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• Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free.

  Nat King Cole

  Ems, Records, Critics

  "Nat King Cole". Book by James Haskings, 1990.

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• It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.

  Johann Sebastian Bach

  Keys, Play, Jazz

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• Music can act upon our senses to produce or induce feelings of reverence, humility, fervor, assurance, or other feelings attuned to the spirit of worship.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Humility, Feelings, Spirit

  Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

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• The ability to play the clarinet is the ability to overcome the imperfections of the instrument. There's no such thing as a perfect clarinet, never was and never will be.

  Jack Brymer

  Funny, Humorous, Play

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• Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Men, Order, Purpose

  Igor Stravinsky “An Autobiography”, Library of Alexandria

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• The still, sad music of humanity.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Nature, Humanity, Prelude

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• If you fake the funk, your nose will grow.

  Bootsy Collins

  Funny, Song, Fake

  "Journalists must stop being in denial: bloggers are here to stay" by John Naughton, www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2005.

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• Religious music is by far the greatest music of the ages. What is there to compare-in rhythmic beauty, poetic sublimity, and inspired teachings-with the Psalms of David?

  Bruce R. McConkie

  Religious, Teaching, Age

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  This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Peace, Ubuntu, Humanity

  Leonard Bernstein (1982). “Findings”, Anchor

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• These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Men, Pigs, Sound

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• Music is the brandy of the damned.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Music Is, Brandy, Man And Superman

  Man and Superman act 3 (1903)

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• There is no such thing as a wrong note.

  Art Tatum

  Jazz, Notes, Notes Music

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• Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.

  Jean-Baptiste Joseph Emile Montegut

  Heart, Moral, Virtue

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• God is its author, and not man; he laid
  The key-note of all harmonies; he planned
  All perfect combinations, and he made
  Us so that we could hear and understand.

  John Gardiner Calkins Brainard

  Men, Keys, Perfect

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• There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Love, Funny, Dog

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• A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

  W. H. Auden

  Art, Thinking, Goes On

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• Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.

  Claude Debussy

  Beauty, Art, Light

  "Greatness: Who Makes History and Why". Book by Dean Keith Simonton, May 20, 1994.

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• I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That's all I know.

  Billie Holiday

  Change, Hate, Singing

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• Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to human welfare.

  Herbert Spencer

  Art, Spirit, Ministers

  "Essays on Education". Book by Herbert Spencer, 1861.

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• Hipness is not a state of mind, It's a fact of life!

  Cannonball Adderley

  Mind, Facts, Jazz And Life

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• Improvisation is the ability to talk to oneself.

  Cecil Taylor

  Jazz Improvisation, Ability, Oneself

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• In the midst of creating, a person is raised to another level of consciousness that doesn't have that much to do with everyday thinking. It's as if you could imagine life before there were words.

  Charlie Haden

  Thinking, Creating, Everyday

  FaceBook post by Charlie Haden from Feb 15, 2015

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