“Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is”
Miles Davis
“It is becoming increasingly difficult to decide where jazz starts or where it stops, where Tin Pan Alley begins and jazz ends, or even where the borderline lies between between classical music and jazz. I feel there is no boundary line”
Duke Ellington
“Music is … A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy”
Beethoven
“If you have to ask what it is [Jazz], you’ll never know.”
Louis Armstrong
“You can’t explain jazz to anyone without losing the experience because it’s feeling, not words.”
Bill Evens
“The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.”
Mozart
“You should never be comfortable… being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians. ”
Miles Davis
“…when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them.”
Plato
“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“It takes an intelligent ear to listen to jazz.”
Art Blakey
“Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.”
Beethoven
“All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws.”
John Coltrane
“Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.”
Plato
“It took twenty years to learn to play the way I do, and I expect people to get it straight away.”
Anon
The advanced musician can receive guitar, Piano or violin tuition at the Charisma Music Academy.