"If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval."

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"If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval."

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"Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It's the image, not what you sing."

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Alex North, American Composer

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"Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music."

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"Whether I'm doing music or I'm walking down the street or I'm in a record store buying a record or I walk into a comic store and I'm buying comics or having a drink with my friends, it's the same me."

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"It was so wonderful outside that even the wild senselessness of this enormous death, whose music I hear again and again, could not disturb me from my great enjoyment!"

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"Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It's the image, not what you sing."

"That's what I like to do, I like to make songs."

"Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator."

"Music's been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. If it's a big record, that's the frosting on the cake, but music's the main meal."

"The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings."

"There are some people, by the way, that associate a certain amount of visualization with the performance of music. Those are people that really are not centrally concerned only with music, the traditional things."

"There are so few directors who are musical who appreciate music."

"Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music."

"Whether I'm doing music or I'm walking down the street or I'm in a record store buying a record or I walk into a comic store and I'm buying comics or having a drink with my friends, it's the same me."

"It was so wonderful outside that even the wild senselessness of this enormous death, whose music I hear again and again, could not disturb me from my great enjoyment!"

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"Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man."

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