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"After a while, though, the group just wasn't a good vehicle for the songs I'd written."
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"Music is happiness with a steady pulse."
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"Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows."
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"When can you understand that the music you play is very good? It is when people look at you but see no one, no one but the music!"
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"As the strings of a lute are apart though they quiver the same music."
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"Music is the melody whose text is the world."
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"If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music."
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"Music is well said to be the speech of angels."
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"To understand fully the importance of music, you must try to image a world without music! Such a world would be a world of hopelessness and boredom!"
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"As I fingered my way through the songs, I felt my worries slough away. My music has always been the best remedy for my dark moods. As I sang, even my bruises seemed to pain me less."
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"So when a man surrenders to the sound of music and lets its sweet, soft, mournful strains, which we have just described, be funnelled into his soul through his ears, and gives up all his time to the glamorous moanings of song, the effect at first on his energy and initiative of mind, if he has any, is to soften it as iron is softened in a furnace, and made workable instead of hard and unworkable: but if he persists and does not break the enchantment, the next stage is that it melts and runs, till the spirit has quite run out of him and his mental sinews (if I may so put it) are cut, and he has become what Homer calls "a feeble fighter"."
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"After a while, though, the group just wasn't a good vehicle for the songs I'd written."
Music
"While listening, to things like western swing, for instance, I'd work something out in my head, then play it on my National; not the same song, but one that captured the feeling of the original tune."
Work
"We used to play in a theater club in London called The King's Head. When the theater let nut, around 10:00 P.M., we'd be ready to go and really get it on for about an hour or so."
London
"I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than."
Change
"My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues."
Music
"I was into playing American music, especially the blues."
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"I'm not a collector, however, and I have no desire to own 50 or 60 guitars."
Desire
"There happened to be guitar classes at the college, and there was a guitar teacher there with whom I used to play. In addition, I also would go out into country schools and teach little kids basic guitar and singing a few times a week."
College
"The music just tends to be a vehicle for that poetry."
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"What I always try to do is to respond to the song; I've always rebelled against theory."
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