"Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of the people."

Music, Dreams, People, Feelings

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Lee Ann Womack, American Musician

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"Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't, I don't really see a point to it."

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Joseph Jarman, American Musician

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Etta James, American Musician

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"Every significant event that takes place in our lives is set to some kind of music."

Peabo Bryson, American Musician

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"When words leave off, music begins."

Heinrich Heine, German Poet

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"One of my favorites is 'The Sound of Music'. When Julie Andrews runs through the hills singing her head off, I always wish that a gust of wind would blow her skirt up."

Mark Roberts, American Actor

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Ella Maillart, Swiss Writer

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"I can see me continuing to make the best music I can, and let the chips fall where they may."

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

"Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't, I don't really see a point to it."

"I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised."

"So all of the music had reference, or is inspired by something of the dharma that I've come in contact with."

"That's where it begins and ends for me and these songs were the ones that touched me the deepest. It was like I was laying hold of some part of me that I didn't even know was there until I let it out."

"Every significant event that takes place in our lives is set to some kind of music."

"When words leave off, music begins."

"One of my favorites is 'The Sound of Music'. When Julie Andrews runs through the hills singing her head off, I always wish that a gust of wind would blow her skirt up."

"Others are keen to see if natives other than us live better than we do, without heat in pipes, ice in boxes, sunshine in bulbs, music on disks, or images gliding over a pale screen."

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"What I'm doing, I prefer to call that jazz, because it is a beautiful word - I love it."

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"In jazz, there is a lot of European influence harmonically."

"If you can't play the blues... you might as well hang it up."

"A lot of times I go back to record and to make a tour, but I'm very happy to do it, because it gives me an opportunity to dig and hear what's going on."

"Music is a reservoir... of sounds."

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