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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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"Great songs don't grow on trees, yet lots of songs have been written on great trees."
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"Music can touch that deepest portion of the soul where nothing else can reach. It can fill our hearts with indescribable ecstasy."
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"Music is the language of the heart, it makes our soul dance with joy."
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"Harpists spend half their life tuning and the other half playing out of tune."
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"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."
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"Music is the fertilizer for heart to bloom the flower of love and peace."
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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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"Music opens the window of the soul to let the nectar of life come in."
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"Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense."
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"You are young, gifted, and Black. We must begin to tell our young, There's a world waiting for you, Yours is the quest that's just begun."
Black
"Americans are immensely popular in Paris; and this is not due solely to the fact that they spend lots of money there, for they spend just as much or more in London, and in the latter city they are merely tolerated because they do spend."
Money
"I had enjoyed life in Paris, and, taking all things into consideration, enjoyed it wholesomely."
Life
"When we arrived in London, my sadness at leaving Paris was turned into despair. After my long stay in the French capital, huge, ponderous, massive London seemed to me as ugly a thing as man could contrive to make."
Despair
"As I look back now I can see that I was a perfect little aristocrat."
Now
"I believe it to be a fact that the colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them."
People
"I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle."
Beauty
"The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they are picturesque. If one will put oneself in a romantic frame of mind, one can admire their notions of chivalry and bravery and justice."
People
"I do not see how a people that can find in its conscience any excuse whatever for slowly burning to death a human being, or for tolerating such an act, can be entrusted with the salvation of a race."
Death
"In Berlin I especially enjoyed the orchestral concerts, and I attended a large number of them. I formed the acquaintance of a good many musicians, several of whom spoke of my playing in high terms."
Travel
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