"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

"If you are able to discover your own keynote or chord and play it over gently to yourself, you will revive as if by magic. Your keynote can be ascertained by listening to some good music. When the note is played it will send a thrill right through you." - Vera Stanley Alder

"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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