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"I think America concedes that true American music has sprung from the Negro."
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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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"Great songs don't grow on trees, yet lots of songs have been written on great trees."
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"Music can touch that deepest portion of the soul where nothing else can reach. It can fill our hearts with indescribable ecstasy."
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"Music is the language of the heart, it makes our soul dance with joy."
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"Harpists spend half their life tuning and the other half playing out of tune."
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"Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars."
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"Music is the fertilizer for heart to bloom the flower of love and peace."
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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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"Music opens the window of the soul to let the nectar of life come in."
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"Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense."
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"I think America concedes that true American music has sprung from the Negro."
Music
"I knew the whistle of each of the river boats on the Tennessee."
Boats
"My big ears indicated a talent for music. This thrilled me."
Music
"Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it."
Life
"Setting my mind on a musical instrument was like falling in love. All the world seemed bright and changed."
Love
"Whenever I heard the song of a bird and the answering call of its mate, I could visualize the notes in scale, all built up within my consciousness as a natural symphony."
Consciousness
"You've got to appreciate the things that come from the art of the Negro and from the heart of the man farthest down."
Art
"Life is something like a trumpet. If you don't put anything in, you won't get anything out."
Life
"The blues - the sound of a sinner on revival day."
Day
"With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds."
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