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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

Music, Truth, Memory, Happiness

"I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised."

Sting, British Musician

Music, Language, Needs

"One of my favorites is 'The Sound of Music'. When Julie Andrews runs through the hills singing her head off, I always wish that a gust of wind would blow her skirt up."

Mark Roberts, American Actor

Music, Singing, Sound, Wind

"Others are keen to see if natives other than us live better than we do, without heat in pipes, ice in boxes, sunshine in bulbs, music on disks, or images gliding over a pale screen."

Ella Maillart, Swiss Writer

Music,

"How you act, walk, look and talk is all part of Hip Hop culture. And the music is colorless. Hip Hop music is made from Black, brown, yellow, red and white."

Afrika Bambaataa, American Musician

Music, Act, Culture, Talk

"I really enjoy the therapeutic value of writing songs."

Shannon Hoon, American Musician

Music, Songs, Value, Writing

"Music is happiness with a steady pulse."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Music, Happiness, Power, Truth, Wisdom

"Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous."

Yehudi Menuhin, American Musician

Music, Harmony, Order

"I don't feel like I'm on a mission. I'm trying to play music that I like to play and like to listen to."

Lyle Lovett, American Musician

Music, Mission, Play, Trying

"They consistently hobble artists' in the name of selling more units then are surprised when the fans don't buy the lukewarm music this produces. So they then drop the artist."

Malcolm Wilson, American Politician

Music, Selling, Artist, Artists

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"If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as a painter."

Want

"English is taking over the world. I just wrote a piece about it. And it's not by design. The United States dominates because it's the biggest market."

Design

"It's trite to say that the world has gotten smaller in the age of globalization, but my travels have told me that it's wrong to think this means there is some kind of uniform world culture."

Age

"There are certain things that ordinary people have that celebrities don't have."

People

"The thematic, psychological, and cultural concerns of a writer are more relevant than whatever literary mode he or she chooses to deal with in any given novel."

Literature

"I get work because I'm primarily a novelist but I've become script doctor. I can work back and forth between French and English."

Work

"I've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness."

Technology

"The world has become more complex as technology and easy travel mixes cultures without homogenizing them."

Technology

"In America, if you don't do a 100 million dollars, you've done nothing."

Money

"I must admit to being greatly influenced by Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces."

Being