"I think Bridge Over Troubled Water was a very good song. Artie sang it beautifully. The Boxer was a really nice record. But I don't think I've written any great songs."

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"I think Bridge Over Troubled Water was a very good song. Artie sang it beautifully. The Boxer was a really nice record. But I don't think I've written any great songs."

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"A song is anything that can walk by itself."

Bob Dylan, American Musician

Music, Song

"People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas."

Bob Dylan, American Musician

Music, People, Ideas, Being

"All truthful music is familiar to the ear, for its notes were written into our souls long ago."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Music, Truth, Wisdom, Power, Life

"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."

Bob Dylan, American Musician

Music, Land, World

"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

Music, Crime, Cruelty, Oppression

"I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too."

Carter Burwell, American Composer

Music,

"How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me."

Carter Burwell, American Composer

Music, Mystery

"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

"Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound."

Eduard Hanslick, German Writer

Music, Nothing, Sound

"I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music."

Nancy Sinatra, American Musician

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"Without Arthur's voice, I never would have enjoyed that success."

Success

"I try to open up my heart as much as I can and keep a real keen eye out that I don't get sentimental. I think we're all afraid to reveal our hearts. It's not at all in fashion."

Heart

"I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It's chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one."

Mother

"I don't consider myself to be a major talent, so the only solace I can take is to hope I'm growing."

Talent

"I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives."

Life

"Not every song I write is ecstasy. And it can happen only one time. After that, when you sing the same melody and words, it's pleasure, but you don't get wiped out."

Time

"Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone."

Faith

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"A song is anything that can walk by itself."

"People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas."

"All truthful music is familiar to the ear, for its notes were written into our souls long ago."

"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."

"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music."

"I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too."

"How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me."

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

"Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound."

"I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music."

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"Without Arthur's voice, I never would have enjoyed that success."

"I try to open up my heart as much as I can and keep a real keen eye out that I don't get sentimental. I think we're all afraid to reveal our hearts. It's not at all in fashion."

"I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It's chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one."

"I don't consider myself to be a major talent, so the only solace I can take is to hope I'm growing."

"I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives."

"Not every song I write is ecstasy. And it can happen only one time. After that, when you sing the same melody and words, it's pleasure, but you don't get wiped out."

"Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone."

"I always get very calm with baseball."

"Facts can be turned into art if one is artful enough."

"Improvisation is too good to leave to chance."