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William Congreve

"Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak."

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

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

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

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"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."

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"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music."

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"I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too."

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"How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me."

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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."

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"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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"She likes herself, yet others hates, For that which in herself she prizes; And while she laughs at them, forgets She is the thing that she despises."
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"Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned."
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"Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing."
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"Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight."
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"Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass."
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"To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task."
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"Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure."
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