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"Miles Davis is one who writes songs when he plays."
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"I can't read a note of music. I just do it all from ear."
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"Music is the highest form of philosophy of the conscious mind."
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"Music fills the infinite to give us infinite joy."
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"Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the truly magical and spiritual powers of music arise from deeper levels of our psyche."
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"I am certain that most composers today would consider today's music to be rich, not to say confusing, in its enormous diversity of styles, technical procedures, and systems of esthetics."
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"Music fills the soul with divine beauty of pure love and life."
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"I think recordings have been a terrific advance because now, when you have a piece of music, particularly something that appears to the listener very complicated, there's really a push to the world to try to figure out what it was that he was hearing."
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"The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days."
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"The greatest thing about doing this movie was that Chris and I both were involved in folk music in the '60s. I had a group, but I don't think it was at the same level as Chris, because he's an amazing musician."
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"I think if we keep on doing good music and people like us and they buy the magazine because we are in the magazine then they cant basically hate us hopefully."
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"In fact, I heard Bird first, and had got well into listening to him. You know, it's the kind of accidental thing that awareness of a player is: what's available, what somebody happens to play for you."
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"The recording industry has changed; they're enjoying such incredible success in the pop field."
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"So I played alto for quite a while until I saved up the money for the baritone."
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"The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing."
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"Miles Davis is one who writes songs when he plays."
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"Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately."
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"It's true I've always been attracted to the jazz band in an orchestral way, rather than a band way."
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"This life of being a transient human being has gotten to a point when it's very hard to bear."
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"Actually, it is a fact that I've been doing more writing than playing in recent years."
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"When I began listening to saxophones, I was first attracted to Coleman Hawkins."
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