"There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself." ~Johann Sebastian Bach

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

"The wise musicians are those who play what they can master." ~Duke Ellington

"Silence is the fabric upon which the notes are woven." ~Lawrence Duncan

"The music has generated all the techniques I use. When I sit down to learn to play something . . . it is not because I want to master a technique. It is because I want to hear what an idea sounds like." ~Pat Martino

"I hope to refine music, study it, try to find some area that I can unlock... These can't be the only notes in the world, there's got to be other notes some place, in some dimension, between the cracks on the piano keys." ~ Marvin Gaye

"I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play." ~Herb Alpert

"How do you play a 4-bar drum break in 6/4 time without counting like mad? Play 6 bars of 4/4. It's much simpler and will really impress the rest of the band" ~Charlie Morgan

"The real art of conducting consists in transitions." ~Gustav Mahler

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