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"I'm outside the music I've made. I have no interest in it."
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"A song is anything that can walk by itself."
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"People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas."
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"All truthful music is familiar to the ear, for its notes were written into our souls long ago."
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"This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway."
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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."
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"Strains of music spring up, crystallizing in the night air like rain turning suddenly to snow, drifting to earth."
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"A tapping foot isn't the best a listener can get from a song: A good song makes a listener dance. A great song makes him think."
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"Music has always gotten me through life, particularly honest, real music."
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"I aim my arrangements at what will fit and colorfully frame the song in the best way possible."
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"I don't use old music."
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"The nearest figure to myself would be Shakespeare."
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"Nature has different times."
Nature
"Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry."
Poetry
"The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time."
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"Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you."
Music
"Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score."
Music
"My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create images from the depths of the imagination and to give them form, whether visual, intellectual or musical."
Imagination
"I'm outside the music I've made. I have no interest in it."
Music
"Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading."
Imagination
"Music is a performance and needs the audience."
Music
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