Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout.

Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout.

There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an read more

There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.

I don't believe in having bands for solo records.

I don't believe in having bands for solo records.

Music is what feelings sound like.

Music is what feelings sound like.

Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song?

Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song?

The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies read more

The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another . . . and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.

Music must rank as the highest of the arts -- more than any other, it ministers to human welfare.

Music must rank as the highest of the arts -- more than any other, it ministers to human welfare.

[T]he music's pure algebra of enchantment.

[T]he music's pure algebra of enchantment.

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.