"Music, in the past few years... anything singable or understandable is square."

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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

"Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music."

Warren Zevon, American Musician

Music, Folk

"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

"Some of the wise boys who say my music is loud, blatant and that's all should see the faces of the kids who have driven a hundred miles through the snow to see the band... to stand in front of the bandstand in an ecstasy all their own."

Stan Kenton, American Musician

Music, Boys, Ecstasy, Faces

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"Mom claimed that I could carry a tune at 2 or 3 years of age. Maybe she was a little prejudiced."

Mom

"My beloved Mom and Pop always rated tops with each other, and that's the way it will always be."

Mom

"My career at Warner Brothers consisted of one musical short subject. I was running around in a bear skin. Very chic."

Brother

"I preferred delivering my performance in person. I liked to be in control. You couldn't be in films."

Control

"I can never remember being afraid of an audience. If the audience could do better, they'd be up here on stage and I'd be out there watching them."

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"Christmas carols always brought tears to my eyes. I also cry at weddings. I should have cried at a couple of my own."

Christmas

"Everything's coming up roses - for me."

Roses

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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."

"Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music."

"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."

"Some of the wise boys who say my music is loud, blatant and that's all should see the faces of the kids who have driven a hundred miles through the snow to see the band... to stand in front of the bandstand in an ecstasy all their own."

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"Mom claimed that I could carry a tune at 2 or 3 years of age. Maybe she was a little prejudiced."

"My beloved Mom and Pop always rated tops with each other, and that's the way it will always be."

"I wouldn't trust any man as far as you can throw a piano."

"Once I had all the attention, all I had to do was deliver."

"Of my four marriages, the one to Bob Levitt is the only one I don't regret."

"My career at Warner Brothers consisted of one musical short subject. I was running around in a bear skin. Very chic."

"I preferred delivering my performance in person. I liked to be in control. You couldn't be in films."

"I can never remember being afraid of an audience. If the audience could do better, they'd be up here on stage and I'd be out there watching them."

"Christmas carols always brought tears to my eyes. I also cry at weddings. I should have cried at a couple of my own."

"Everything's coming up roses - for me."