"If New Orleans is allowed to die, a crucial part of the world's music heritage will disappear."

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"If New Orleans is allowed to die, a crucial part of the world's music heritage will disappear."

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"I'm easy driving, But I'm not a person who loves living pleasantly above all else. I'm not that way at all. I might think I'm that, but I'm not really that."

Driving, Living

"I don't think England is that gray but India is like a long drone."

England,

"I was an art student at the time, like thousands of others."

Art, Time

"Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we're tired of hearing promises that we know they'll never keep."

Money, Corruption, Hearing, Land

"When you are making a record and if you spend too much time over it, you have to record it a tone lower or cut the tones lower because you can't reach some of the notes, I find this. But when you go on stage, you have to put the key up and it really changes the whole thing."

Time, Key

"No one can penetrate me. They only see what's in their own fancy, always."

Fancy,

"Our repertoire consisted of rhythm and blues, sort of country rhythm and blues, Sonny Terry things."

Country,

"What I try to do probably doesn't come out. What I've worked out what I do - I might not be right - is to do something very personal, and then suddenly I look at it, up in the air. I blow it up and look at it and then I come down again - a better man."

Man, Right

"Then I got together with my brother and a friend and we decided to play dates. The more we played, the more we wanted to do it. And it got to a stage where we wanted to do it all the time."

Time, Brother, Friend, Play

"I'm susceptible to that sort of thing - to walls and flowers. You can probably get something more from a wall than a person sometimes. It's just put somewhere."

Flowers,

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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."

Mitch Albom, American Writer

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"There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

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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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"You can cage the singer but not the song."

Harry Belafonte, American Musician

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"For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

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"Music reveals the deepest beauty of the soul."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"We could argue about what constitutes the creepiest line in pop music, but for me it's early Beatles- John Lennon, actually- singing 'I'd rather see you dead, little girl, than to be with another man."

Stephen King, American Author

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"Music fills the void between the heart and soul and connects them in heavenly delights."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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