"The music is the last thing I'm thinking about right now, in order of what's important."

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"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Music, Truth, Memory, Happiness

"Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

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"I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world."

Peter Ustinov, English Actor

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"I'm half Jewish, I'm half black, I look in-between. I dress funny. I play all these different styles of music on one record. It's like, What is he doing?"

Lenny Kravitz, American Musician

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"Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune."

Miguel De Cervantes, Spanish Novelist

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"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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"Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune."

Kin Hubbard, American Journalist

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"I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs."

Taylor Swift, American Musician

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"Orgy-porgy, round and round and round, beating one another in six-eight time."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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"Well my music was different in high school; I was singing about love - you know, things I don't care about anymore."

Lady Gaga, American Musician

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"Because I was small, I was getting the hell kicked out of me playing football."

Football

"I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American music students."

Music

"It's not getting any better, is it? I don't want my 19-year-old boy going into the army. I love these little kids. They understand how passionate I am."

Love

"Knowing when to leave may be the smartest thing anyone can learn."

May

"I was blown away by the standing ovation. I've had tributes before, sure, but I don't retain that feeling, and I wasn't prepared for it on Tuesday. But maybe you shouldn't retain these things or you'd be on a permanent high."

Feelings

"I felt alienated at school, and I never did well with girls."

Girls

"I recorded the song live in front of an orchestra, and yes, I was very moved, I was in tears."

Music

"Never be ashamed to write a melody that people remember."

People

"A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of."

Thought

"I'd met Dr Dre, he was thinking about his next album, we talked a little and he said, 'Let me give you some of these loops and see what you come up with'."

Thinking