"One must indeed test the strings to this life, bounce the bow, wet the mouthpiece, prepare for the deeper music that follows."

Music, Preparation, Performance, Art

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"One must indeed test the strings to this life, bounce the bow, wet the mouthpiece, prepare for the deeper music that follows."

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

Bob Dylan, American Musician

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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."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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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."

Bob Dylan, American Musician

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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

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"Strains of music spring up, crystallizing in the night air like rain turning suddenly to snow, drifting to earth."

Lauren Oliver, American Author

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"A tapping foot isn't the best a listener can get from a song: A good song makes a listener dance. A great song makes him think."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"Music has always gotten me through life, particularly honest, real music."

Lisa Marie Presley, American Musician

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"I aim my arrangements at what will fit and colorfully frame the song in the best way possible."

Les Baxter, American Musician

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"I'm not doing contemporary songs unless something comes along that really knocks my socks off."

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"That was the end of his driving.. That was the end of his walking free.. That was the end of his privacy.. And that was the end of his secret."

Privacy

"But I do know we're deficient in some way. We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don't satisfy us. The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these things for granted."

Simplicity

"She felt worthless and hollow. There was no hope of fixing this.And when hope is gone, time is punishment."

Despair

"Dying is only one thing to be sad over. Living unhappily is something else."

Sadness

"I lifted my eyes, and, for the first time, admitted the truth."I gave up," I whispered."Don't give up," she whispered back."

Encouragement

"Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to."

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"Never tell a child that something it's too hard."

Parenting

"If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your heard even, you experience them fully and completely."

Sensitivity

"Some things you endure for a reason."

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"The world is full of stories, but the stories are all one."

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