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"Bobby Womack is always very real, both with his music and as a person."
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"I can't read a note of music. I just do it all from ear."
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"Music fills the infinite to give us infinite joy."
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"Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the truly magical and spiritual powers of music arise from deeper levels of our psyche."
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"I am certain that most composers today would consider today's music to be rich, not to say confusing, in its enormous diversity of styles, technical procedures, and systems of esthetics."
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"Music fills the soul with divine beauty of pure love and life."
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"I think recordings have been a terrific advance because now, when you have a piece of music, particularly something that appears to the listener very complicated, there's really a push to the world to try to figure out what it was that he was hearing."
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"The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days."
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"I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else."
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"The greatest thing about doing this movie was that Chris and I both were involved in folk music in the '60s. I had a group, but I don't think it was at the same level as Chris, because he's an amazing musician."
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"Bobby Womack is always very real, both with his music and as a person."
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"That's where it begins and ends for me and these songs were the ones that touched me the deepest. It was like I was laying hold of some part of me that I didn't even know was there until I let it out."
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"I'm not a braggart, but when I was a little girl people used to come from all over Hollywood to hear me sing."
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