"Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper."

Music, Emotions

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"Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper."

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"The art music of the West has developed through out its history by means of individual geniuses, and out of the soil supporting them; non-Western musicians were born, and grew like the grasses of the field."

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"Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper."

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"Music is a form of prayer."

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"I probably belong to a type of composer of songs who keeps thinking about melody... I am old fashioned."

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"Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world."

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"I always want to write erotic music... Not only about the love between men and women, but in a much more universal sense - about the sensuality of the mechanism of the universe... about life."

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"Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow."

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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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"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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Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

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