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"This is something special. You can attempt to have a kind of non-living music."
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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."
"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."
"Music has always gotten me through life, particularly honest, real music."
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"Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry."
"The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time."
"Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you."
"Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score."
"My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create images from the depths of the imagination and to give them form, whether visual, intellectual or musical."
"Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading."
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