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I would say that the sound world created between the intersection of William's bass and my piano is completely unprecedented in music history. That's a completely original sound world. - Matthew Shipp

The average person doesn't know an augmented 9th or 13th, so neither do I, 'cause I never went to school for music. - Dick Dale

I also was drawn to the fact that it involves the next generation of filmmakers. Usually, they say Wrap! and the director takes his 150,000 feet of fetus and makes a baby. But Carlos kept me in the loop on the first cut, choosing the music, and finding rhythm of scenes. - Jimmy Smits

If you listen to Cecil Taylor you'll hear some classical things. So the genius of this idiom is that you can bring anything into it. I mean, that's any music, really, when you get down to it. - Matthew Shipp

For everybody who lost somebody out there and stuff, when you need therapy, music is the best way. - Wyclef Jean

It was a joyous experience to find out that you were actually doing somebody else's music with things that you had on the shelf. - David Tudor

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune. - Kin Hubbard

I'm sure there's no way to escape the fact that I was heavily influenced by him. I was only around his music and him most of the early part of my life. It's impossible not to have been inspired or influenced. - Lisa Marie Presley

Jazz is a music that is open enough to borrow from any other form of music, and has the strength to influence any other form of music. - Herbie Hancock

Actually, I don't really like the term 'experimental' very much. Even if there exist music subsumable to such a term, it seems to belong to a fundamentally different genus than, for instance, extremely radicalized forms of familiar conventions. - Brian Ferneyhough