"People are always defining and re-defining music. My style of playing has been characterized as smooth jazz and acid jazz. I listen as I play; I'm not caught up in defining the type of music I play."

Music, People, Jazz, Play

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"People are always defining and re-defining music. My style of playing has been characterized as smooth jazz and acid jazz. I listen as I play; I'm not caught up in defining the type of music I play."

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"A song is anything that can walk by itself."

Bob Dylan, American Musician

Music, Song

"People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas."

Bob Dylan, American Musician

Music, People, Ideas, Being

"All truthful music is familiar to the ear, for its notes were written into our souls long ago."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Music, Truth, Wisdom, Power, Life

"This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway."

Bob Dylan, American Musician

Music, Land, World

"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

Music, Crime, Cruelty, Oppression

"I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too."

Carter Burwell, American Composer

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"How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me."

Carter Burwell, American Composer

Music, Mystery

"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Music, Truth, Memory, Happiness

"Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound."

Eduard Hanslick, German Writer

Music, Nothing, Sound

"I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music."

Nancy Sinatra, American Musician

Music, Daughter

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"Most musicians count at the beginning, and never count and talk to their musicians after that. They only talk to them at the end of the song. But I would count with them and talk."

Beginning

"I don't like rap that you can't understand. The youth is so quick and alert."

Quick

"I couldn't get my album played over the so-called smooth jazz stations. Jazz stations would not play it. You don't always know who you're making that soul connection with."

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"Most artists have contracts directly with the record company, and when they do music, all of their music is owned by the record company. But I did mine through a production company."

Music

"I don't trip on that much. I just like to enjoy life and be happy."

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"The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers."

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"The majors, they have to control the distribution, the record outlets, the radio and, in some cases, even the venues. And downloading and pirating have also put pressure on the majors."

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"A song is anything that can walk by itself."

"People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas."

"All truthful music is familiar to the ear, for its notes were written into our souls long ago."

"This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway."

"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music."

"I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too."

"How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me."

"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."

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"I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music."

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"It's a wonderful feeling just being in this creative motif."

"I always had this energy level that made me want to come to New York."

"I think music all the time."

"Most musicians count at the beginning, and never count and talk to their musicians after that. They only talk to them at the end of the song. But I would count with them and talk."

"I don't like rap that you can't understand. The youth is so quick and alert."

"I couldn't get my album played over the so-called smooth jazz stations. Jazz stations would not play it. You don't always know who you're making that soul connection with."

"Most artists have contracts directly with the record company, and when they do music, all of their music is owned by the record company. But I did mine through a production company."

"I don't trip on that much. I just like to enjoy life and be happy."

"The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers."

"The majors, they have to control the distribution, the record outlets, the radio and, in some cases, even the venues. And downloading and pirating have also put pressure on the majors."