"Jazz is rhythm and meaning."

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"Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It's the image, not what you sing."

Rod Stewart, Scottish Musician

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"That's what I like to do, I like to make songs."

Marc Almond, British Musician

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"Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator."

Jeff Tweedy, American Musician

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"Music's been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. If it's a big record, that's the frosting on the cake, but music's the main meal."

Ray Charles, American Musician

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"The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings."

Ikue Mori, Japanese Musician

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"There are some people, by the way, that associate a certain amount of visualization with the performance of music. Those are people that really are not centrally concerned only with music, the traditional things."

Leo Ornstein, American Composer

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"There are so few directors who are musical who appreciate music."

Alex North, American Composer

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"Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music."

Carter Burwell, American Composer

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"Whether I'm doing music or I'm walking down the street or I'm in a record store buying a record or I walk into a comic store and I'm buying comics or having a drink with my friends, it's the same me."

Glenn Danzig, American Musician

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"It was so wonderful outside that even the wild senselessness of this enormous death, whose music I hear again and again, could not disturb me from my great enjoyment!"

Max Beckmann, German Artist

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"It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else."

Life

"What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue."

Art

"A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't so much the worse for you."

Character

"There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted."

Art

"I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me."

Art

"There are always flowers for those who want to see them."

Flowers

"With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft."

Energy

"He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back."

Freedom

"You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover."

Love

"Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better."

Instinct