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"I can't read a note of music. I just do it all from ear."
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"What I try to impart to a musician is to really try to practice the instrument in a really sincere way. Learn as much about music as you possibly can. Learn composition. Study to try to create compositions of your own and put your own personal touch on your music."
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"Music is the highest form of philosophy of the conscious mind."
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"It used to be that creative music was most of the music that you heard back in the '30s and '40s, and now it's like 3 percent. So, its kind of a struggle getttin' it out there."
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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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"It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip."
Language

"This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul."
Poetry

"I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life."
Life

"Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thin ice that cracks; and so may no one touch you who loves you."
Happiness

"Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought."
Work

"However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies."
Poetry

"True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know."
Poetry

"Today not even a universal fire could make the torrential poetic production of our time disappear. But it is exactly a question of production, that is, of hand-made products which are subject to the laws of taste and fashion."
Time

"For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music."
Music

"Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready."
Art
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