Art Tatum famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
Is there a meaning to music? Yes. Can you state in so many words what the meaning is? No.
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can't write a note.
Why play a chord when you can play one note?
Consider what a romantic expedition you are on; take notes.
You can alter movie singing so much because you go into the recording studio and, just technology for recording has gotten so good, you can hold out a note and they can combine a note from take 2 and a note from take 8.
You can be creative and not addictive, or addictive and not creative. Most addicted people do not produce anything of remarkable note.
There is no such thing as a wrong note.
Children are given Mozart because of the small quantity of the notes; grown-ups avoid Mozart because of the great quality of the notes.

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