"The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz."

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

Alex North, American Composer

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"Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music."

Brian Eno, British Musician

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

Lee Ann Womack, American Musician

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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

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"I just really longed to do music that reflected me as an adult and music that I thought was for other adults."

Rick Derringer, American Musician

Music, Thought

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

Alanis Morissette, Canadian Musician

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"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."

Sting, British Musician

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

Joseph Jarman, American Musician

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"I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it."

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"I don't say that the supposed Civil Rights development is a myth, but it's a matter of dealing with reality. It's purely peripheral and, in many cases, it's just a facade."

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"My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire."

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"When I was doing jazz concerts in America, I would use the biggest names I could find."

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"To play today in London, next week in Madrid and the week after that in Warsaw is a bit better than playing Newark and Baltimore and Philadelphia. I've been doing that for 20 years."

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"I don't think I will ever do any tours again in the United States. I rather think that that's over with."

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"There are many artists that I present that I admit I like less than I do others. But I think that they warrant being presented by my own, personal standards."

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

"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."

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

"Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music."

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"I'm talking as a professional impresario. I'm not judging anybody at all."

"I made it easier for many artists to play in certain areas."

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"I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it."

"I don't say that the supposed Civil Rights development is a myth, but it's a matter of dealing with reality. It's purely peripheral and, in many cases, it's just a facade."

"My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire."

"When I was doing jazz concerts in America, I would use the biggest names I could find."

"To play today in London, next week in Madrid and the week after that in Warsaw is a bit better than playing Newark and Baltimore and Philadelphia. I've been doing that for 20 years."

"I don't think I will ever do any tours again in the United States. I rather think that that's over with."

"There are many artists that I present that I admit I like less than I do others. But I think that they warrant being presented by my own, personal standards."