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"Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world."
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"I can't read a note of music. I just do it all from ear."
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"Music is the highest form of philosophy of the conscious mind."
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"Music fills the infinite to give us infinite joy."
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"Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the truly magical and spiritual powers of music arise from deeper levels of our psyche."
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"I am certain that most composers today would consider today's music to be rich, not to say confusing, in its enormous diversity of styles, technical procedures, and systems of esthetics."
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"Music fills the soul with divine beauty of pure love and life."
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"I think recordings have been a terrific advance because now, when you have a piece of music, particularly something that appears to the listener very complicated, there's really a push to the world to try to figure out what it was that he was hearing."
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"The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days."
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"I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else."
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"The greatest thing about doing this movie was that Chris and I both were involved in folk music in the '60s. I had a group, but I don't think it was at the same level as Chris, because he's an amazing musician."
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"Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim."
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"Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment."
Happiness

"All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato."
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"Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up."
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"Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men."
Friendship

"If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved."
Pain

"Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace."
Knowledge

"Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions."
Hope

"In Greece wise men speak and fools decide."
Man

"Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different."
Friendship
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