A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that he produces.
Music Quotes
I joined Count Basie’s band to make a little money and see the world. For almost two years I didn’t see anything but the inside of a Blue Goose bus, and I never got to send home a quarter.
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.’
O Music! Miraculous art! A blast of thy trumpet and millions rush forward to die; a peal of thy organ and uncounted nations sink down to pray.
Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes
Blues is a good woman feeling bad.
I would rather play Chiquita Banana and have my swimming pool than play Bach and starve.
I hate music, especially when it’s played.
Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
