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"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

"Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

Music, Dance, Speech, Stars

"I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world."

Peter Ustinov, English Actor

Music, Laughter, Sound, World

"I'm half Jewish, I'm half black, I look in-between. I dress funny. I play all these different styles of music on one record. It's like, What is he doing?"

Lenny Kravitz, American Musician

Music, Funny, Dress, Play

"Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune."

Miguel De Cervantes, Spanish Novelist

Music, Soul

"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

Music, Silence

"Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune."

Kin Hubbard, American Journalist

Music, Thinking, Will

"I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs."

Taylor Swift, American Musician

Music, Time, Artist, Country

"Orgy-porgy, round and round and round, beating one another in six-eight time."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

Music, Violence, Repetition, Life

"Well my music was different in high school; I was singing about love - you know, things I don't care about anymore."

Lady Gaga, American Musician

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"I just try to do as good job with the material as I can and play some jazz as well, some improvised music, and do that every night. Just see where it goes."

Music

"My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden."

Jazz

"I do very few standards. Hardly any. Other people's tunes that I do are usually obscure tunes, for the most part, although I do a couple of Duke Ellington tunes that are well known."

People

"I do some concerts. At the moment, I'm being helped a lot by a gig I play in London, which is Pizza Express."

Being

"The jazz boom was goin' on then so there was a lot happenin' in New York at that time."

Time

"As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality."

Invention

"Then I started listenin' a lot to classical composers. Piano works. Just to see what they were doin'. That sort of put me in a different groove to try to blend all that in."

Composer

"I'm playin' music for a certain type of person. Fortunately, there are more and more of us. At least there are more comin' to see me than there were 30 years ago or so."

Music

"Traveling these days has a lot of problems and also it wears you out more."

Problems

"I went through the whole number, you know. The swing era, the boogie woogie era, the bebop era. Thelonious Monk is still one of my favorites. So a lot of these people had their effect on me."

People