"It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of "culture.""

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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."

Bob Dylan, American Musician

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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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"I was about sixteen when I discovered that music could get you laid, so I got into music boy, didn't matter what you looked like either, you could be a geeky looking guy but if you played music, whoa, you'd get the girls."

Tommy Chong, Canadian Actor

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"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"Music is happiness with a steady pulse."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it."

Hanns Eisler, German Composer

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"Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory."

Percy Bysshe Shelley, English Poet

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"I have never acknowledged the difference between serious music and light music. There is only good music and bad music."

Kurt Weill, German Composer

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"The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason."

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"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones."

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"There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot."

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"There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing."

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"We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life."

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"The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation."

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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."

"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."

"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."

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

"I was about sixteen when I discovered that music could get you laid, so I got into music boy, didn't matter what you looked like either, you could be a geeky looking guy but if you played music, whoa, you'd get the girls."

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"A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it."

"Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory."

"I have never acknowledged the difference between serious music and light music. There is only good music and bad music."

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"The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason."

"I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry."

"Ideas are one thing and what happens is another."

"It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep."

"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones."

"There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot."

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"It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of "culture.""

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"The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation."