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"Music is happiness with a steady pulse."
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"When can you understand that the music you play is very good? It is when people look at you but see no one, no one but the music!"
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"As the strings of a lute are apart though they quiver the same music."
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"Music is the melody whose text is the world."
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"If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music."
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"Music is well said to be the speech of angels."
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"To understand fully the importance of music, you must try to image a world without music! Such a world would be a world of hopelessness and boredom!"
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"As I fingered my way through the songs, I felt my worries slough away. My music has always been the best remedy for my dark moods. As I sang, even my bruises seemed to pain me less."
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"So when a man surrenders to the sound of music and lets its sweet, soft, mournful strains, which we have just described, be funnelled into his soul through his ears, and gives up all his time to the glamorous moanings of song, the effect at first on his energy and initiative of mind, if he has any, is to soften it as iron is softened in a furnace, and made workable instead of hard and unworkable: but if he persists and does not break the enchantment, the next stage is that it melts and runs, till the spirit has quite run out of him and his mental sinews (if I may so put it) are cut, and he has become what Homer calls "a feeble fighter"."
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"I discovered that the most interesting music of all was made by simply lining the loops in unison, and letting them slowly shift out of phase with other."
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"When I was growing up, there was no such thing as Off-Broadway. You either got your show on or you didn't."
Growing up
"The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them."
Country
"The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until you get it all on paper. If you can put everything down, stream-of-consciousness, you'll do yourself a service."
Service
"I firmly believe lyrics have to breathe and give the audience's ear a chance to understand what's going on. Particularly in the theater, where you have costume, story, acting, orchestra."
Acting
"Math and music are intimately related. Not necessarily on a conscious level, but sure."
Music
"By the time I was 22, I was a professional. A young and flawed professional, but not an amateur."
Time
"I really don't want to write a score until the whole show is cast and staged."
Want
"So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work."
Work
"Everyone I used to play with has either given up or is dead."
Play
"If people have split views about your work, I think it's flattering. I'd rather have them feel something about it than dismiss it."
Work
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