"With other people, you're always swapping music. Somebody is always listening to something you've never heard. It's a great way to hear all sorts of new things."

Music, People, Listening

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"With other people, you're always swapping music. Somebody is always listening to something you've never heard. It's a great way to hear all sorts of new things."

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"A song is anything that can walk by itself."

Bob Dylan, American Musician

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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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"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

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"I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too."

Carter Burwell, American Composer

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"How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me."

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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

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"I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music."

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"When you feel like you've had a good show, you go backstage and you talk to yourself about it, and if you have a bad show you talk to yourself about it."

Talk

"I may be revered or defamed and decried; But I tried to live my life right."

Life

"I see some recurring themes: things that feel threaded together, some symbolic references, and songs about some of the big questions, like death. There are a lot of references to weather, too!"

Death

"After it's finished, sometimes I can trace a path that goes back to the possible source of inspiration."

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"Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I really control."

Control

"We all must live our lives always feeling, always thinking the moment has arrived."

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"We have more media than ever and more technology in our lives. It's supposed to help us communicate, but it has the opposite effect of isolating us."

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"I learn all these things about the record talking about it after it's finished."

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"I end up writing about all kinds of things. I never make an attempt to write about anything in particular. I don't have a little list of topics to write about."

End

"I'm a hopeful cynic."

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