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"Music fills the infinite between two souls."
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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."

"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."

"Both parents were very encouraging - especially my father. My father thought the sun rose and set with me. Neither one had a musical background or any musical talent. They liked classical music, but neither could carry a tune."

"Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music."

"It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard "Heartbreak Hotel" I thought, this is it."
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"From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest."

"I have never been able to make out," I began, "why women are so shy about being caught reading poetry.We men--lawyers, mechanics, or what not--may well feel ashamed. If we must read poetry, it should be at dead of night, within closed doors. But you women are so akin to poesy. The Creator Himself is a lyric poet, and Jayadeva must have practised the divine art seated at His feet."

"We are in misery because we are creatures of self - the self that is unyielding and narrow, that reflects no light, that is blind to the infinite. Our self is loud with its own discordant clamour - it is not the tuned harp whose chords vibrate with the music of the eternal. Sighs of discontent and weariness of failure, idle regrets for the past and anxieties for the future are troubling our shallow hearts because we have not found our souls, and the self-revealing spirit has not been manifest within us. Hence our cry."

"The small wisdom is like water in a glass:clear, transparent, pure.The great wisdom is like the water in the sea:dark, mysterious, impenetrable."

"The young student sits with his head bent over his books, and his mind straying in youth's dreamland; where prose is prowling on the desk and poetry hiding in the heart."

"The spirit of rejection finds its support in the consciousness of separateness, the spirit of acceptance finds its base in the consciousness of unity."

"These paper boats of mine are meant to dance on the ripples of hours, and not reach any destination."
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