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

William Christopher Handy, American Musician

Music, Talent

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"Music is the most beautiful magic which can mesmerize everyone."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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

Bob Dylan, American Musician

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"Music fills the emptiness of our souls with the indescribable universal ecstasy"

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Music expresses those thoughts and words, which have no form but have longing for love."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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

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"I never listened to country music growing up."

Deana Carter, American Musician

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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

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"Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it."

Aaron Carter, American Musician

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"Attempting to write vocal oriented songs to me felt like going through the motions and if you are going to go through the motions you might as well just do any gig that caused you to do repetitive motions like banging a hammer or serving fries."

Ronnie Montrose, American Musician

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"I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping."

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"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."

Money

"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."

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"Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it."

Life

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

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

Boats

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

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

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"Music is the most beautiful magic which can mesmerize everyone."

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

"Music fills the emptiness of our souls with the indescribable universal ecstasy"

"Music expresses those thoughts and words, which have no form but have longing for love."

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

"I never listened to country music growing up."

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

"Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it."

"Attempting to write vocal oriented songs to me felt like going through the motions and if you are going to go through the motions you might as well just do any gig that caused you to do repetitive motions like banging a hammer or serving fries."

"I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping."

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"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."

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

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

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

"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."

"Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it."

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

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

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

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