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Music is enough for a lifetime - but a lifetime is not enough for music.
Sergei Rachmaninoff
'A lifetime of music is never-ending, yet a moment of it can last forever.'
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All a musician can do is to get closer to the source.
John Coltrane
4.
You are the music while the music lasts.
T. S. Eliot
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For me, music and life are all about style.
Miles Davis
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Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.
George Szell
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Jazz is the continual pulsation of the now.
Pat Martino
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Jazz is the type of music that can absorb so many things and still be jazz.
Sonny Rollins
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Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.
Charlie Parker
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In my music, I'm trying to play the truth of what I am.
Charles Mingus
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...to me if it's anything, jazz is a verb-it's more like a process than it is a thing.
Pat Metheny
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I compulsively reach for perfection in music, often at the expense of everything else in my life.
Stan Getz