"My big ears indicated a talent for music. This thrilled me."

William Christopher Handy, American Musician

Music, Talent

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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."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Music, Truth, Memory, Happiness

"Great songs don't grow on trees, yet lots of songs have been written on great trees."

Benny Bellamacina, British Author

Music, Creativity, Nature, Inspirational

"Music can touch that deepest portion of the soul where nothing else can reach. It can fill our hearts with indescribable ecstasy."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Music is the language of the heart, it makes our soul dance with joy."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Harpists spend half their life tuning and the other half playing out of tune."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

Music, Mistakes, Life, Practice

"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."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

Music, Dance, Speech, Stars

"Music is the fertilizer for heart to bloom the flower of love and peace."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"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

"Music opens the window of the soul to let the nectar of life come in."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense."

Joseph Addison, English Writer

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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."

"Great songs don't grow on trees, yet lots of songs have been written on great trees."

"Music can touch that deepest portion of the soul where nothing else can reach. It can fill our hearts with indescribable ecstasy."

"Music is the language of the heart, it makes our soul dance with joy."

"Harpists spend half their life tuning and the other half playing out of tune."

"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."

"Music is the fertilizer for heart to bloom the flower of love and peace."

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

"Music opens the window of the soul to let the nectar of life come in."

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"With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds."

"The name of my ailment was longing, and it was not cured till I finally went to the department store and counted out the money in small coins before the dismayed clerk. When I came to the house, I held up the instrument before the eyes of the astonished household."

"Whenever I heard the song of a bird and the answering call of its mate, I could visualize the notes in scale, all built up within my consciousness as a natural symphony."

"You've got to appreciate the things that come from the art of the Negro and from the heart of the man farthest down."

"The blues - the sound of a sinner on revival day."

"Life is something like a trumpet. If you don't put anything in, you won't get anything out."

"I think America concedes that true American music has sprung from the Negro."

"I knew the whistle of each of the river boats on the Tennessee."

"Nature was my kindergarten."

"Setting my mind on a musical instrument was like falling in love. All the world seemed bright and changed."