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The ability to make music is a gift that you're born with; it's not something you can learn.

The need to make music, and to listen to it, is universally expressed by human beings. I cannot imagine, even in our most primitive times, the emergence of talented painters to make cave paintings without there having been, near at hand, equally creative people making song. It is, like speech, a dominant aspect of human biology.

A lot of producers don't have any musical education. I couldn't make the music I make without playing the piano.

There's more to being a musician than just making music.

Think of a musical as a string of pearls. If you don't have a string, you can't put the pearls around your neck.

Musicians should not play music. Music should play musicians.

We don't make music - it makes us.

But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense.

Music is that universal language which unifies the spirits of mankind.