Music Hath Charms To Soothe The Savage Beast

I start in the middle of a sentence
and move both directions at once.
—John Coltrane

After silence that which comes nearest to expressing
the inexpressible is music.
—Aldous Huxley

Only play what you hear. If you don't hear anything,
don't play anything.
—Chick Corea

Roaming through the jungle of "Ohs" and "Ahs" searching for a more agreeable noise, I live a life of primitivity with the mind of a child and an unquenchable thirst for sharps and flats.
—Duke Ellington

Thelonious Monk went over to Bird and Bud Powell and said, "I told you guys to act crazy, but I didn't tell you to fall in love with the act. You're really crazy now."
—Charles Mingus

They flat their fifths, we drink ours.
—Eddie Condon

The technical history of modern harmony is a history of growth of toleration by the human ear of chords that at first sounded discordant and senseless to the main body of contemporary professional musicians.
—George Bernard Shaw

Information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom,
wisdom is not truth, truth is not beauty,
beauty is not love, love is not music,
music is the BEST.
—Frank Zappa

I'm not here to raise hippie consciousness,
I'm here to wet some panties.
—Jaco Pastorius

The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking
"Is there a meaning to music?" My answer would be, "Yes",
And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?"
My answer to that would be "No."
—Aaron Copland