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"A song is anything that can walk by itself."
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"People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas."
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"All truthful music is familiar to the ear, for its notes were written into our souls long ago."
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"This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway."
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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."
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"Strains of music spring up, crystallizing in the night air like rain turning suddenly to snow, drifting to earth."
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"A tapping foot isn't the best a listener can get from a song: A good song makes a listener dance. A great song makes him think."
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"Music has always gotten me through life, particularly honest, real music."
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"I aim my arrangements at what will fit and colorfully frame the song in the best way possible."
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"I don't use old music."
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"I think we're in a very low point of music right now."
Music
"One very important aspect of our contemporary musical culture - some might say the supremely important aspect - is its extension in the historical and geographical senses to a degree unknown in the past."
Culture
"Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the truly magical and spiritual powers of music arise from deeper levels of our psyche."
Music
"Writing seems to be more difficult as you move through the years."
Writing
"In a broader sense, the rhythms of nature, large and small - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music."
Music
"I pick up the New York Times or Time and it's talking about the latest rock group, which I'm sure is exciting to some people, but it neglects a huge area of music."
Music
"Perhaps two million years ago the creatures of a planet in some remote galaxy faced a musical crisis similar to that which we earthly composers face today."
Composer
"I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic."
Present
"The development of new instrumental and vocal idioms has been one of the remarkable phenomena of recent music."
Music
"If we look at music history closely, it is not difficult to isolate certain elements of great potency which were to nourish the art of music for decades, if not centuries."
Art
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