"I want people to come to my music without prejudice. I want them to get the music first. And who I am isn't that important. If they like the songs to me that's a good thing."

Music, People, First, Prejudice

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"I want people to come to my music without prejudice. I want them to get the music first. And who I am isn't that important. If they like the songs to me that's a good thing."

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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

Music, Soul, Ecstasy, Joy

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

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Music, Heart, Soul, Joy

"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

Music, Heart, Bloom, Peace

"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

Music, Soul, Life, Window

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

Joseph Addison, English Writer

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"I probably wrote three-quarters of the songs without an instrument in my hands."

Music

"Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists."

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"There's a part of me that wishes I'd never said one single solitary word on any subject publicly. Then I could have been the tortured poet, and there's so much mileage in that. But it's too late to stop now."

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"It's amazing what some people read into songs."

People

"Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise."

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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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"I like the idea of playing in unison with yourself."

"You want the audience to be uncomfortable."

"I just like to entertain myself by sitting down and writing songs."

"I probably wrote three-quarters of the songs without an instrument in my hands."

"Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists."

"There's a part of me that wishes I'd never said one single solitary word on any subject publicly. Then I could have been the tortured poet, and there's so much mileage in that. But it's too late to stop now."

"It's amazing what some people read into songs."

"Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise."