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"Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself."
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"I can't read a note of music. I just do it all from ear."
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"Music is the highest form of philosophy of the conscious mind."
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"Music fills the infinite to give us infinite joy."
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"I am certain that most composers today would consider today's music to be rich, not to say confusing, in its enormous diversity of styles, technical procedures, and systems of esthetics."
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"Music fills the soul with divine beauty of pure love and life."
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"I think recordings have been a terrific advance because now, when you have a piece of music, particularly something that appears to the listener very complicated, there's really a push to the world to try to figure out what it was that he was hearing."
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"The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days."
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"I think if we keep on doing good music and people like us and they buy the magazine because we are in the magazine then they cant basically hate us hopefully."
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"I have observed, too, that the people of the many countries that I have visited are showing an ever increasing interest in the classical and traditional music of their own cultures."
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"Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing."
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"It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something."
God
"The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply."
Reticence
"No one will ever know what 'In Cold Blood' took out of me. It scraped me right down to the marrow of my bones. It nearly killed me. I think, in a way, it did kill me."
Blood
"Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself."
Music
"Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life."
Life
"To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make."
Music
"I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years."
Urbanism
"All literature is gossip."
Journalism
"Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go."
Travel
"I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about."
Talk
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