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The manner in which Americans "consume" music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie -- it's consumed that way without any regard for how and why it's made.

It is easier to understand a nation by listening to its music than by learning its language.

I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play every day, and take it in front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.

They said, "You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are. The man replied, "Things as they are changed upon a blue guitar.

The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto is staggering. Rock and pop breed concentric worlds of fashion, setting and lifestyle. Popular music has brought with it sociologies of private and public manner, of group solidarity. The politics of Eden come loud.

Music is the brandy of the damned.

If we were all determined to play the first violin, we should never have an ensemble; therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes -- ah, that is where the art resides.

When the music changes, so does the dance.

I don't know anything about music. In my line, you don't have to.