"Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write."

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"Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write."

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"I can't read a note of music. I just do it all from ear."

Jane Horrocks, English Actress

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"What I try to impart to a musician is to really try to practice the instrument in a really sincere way. Learn as much about music as you possibly can. Learn composition. Study to try to create compositions of your own and put your own personal touch on your music."

Roscoe Mitchell, American Composer

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"I'm thinking in terms of a point of departure, a field of action for performers to express an expressive need of mine which hopefully the context of music would convey."

John Eaton, American Politician

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"Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior."

Boethius, Roman Philosopher

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"I've performed solo for 20 years now, but I don't do much of it, because if you only play alone, you go crazy and out of tune and play foolish music."

Steve Lacy, American Musician

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"If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words."

Dolly Parton, American Musician

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"Music is the highest form of philosophy of the conscious mind."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"I think it's like music for the sake of music, and a lot of the words stem from liking music a lot, wanting to be a good band and having a good sense of humour, and living in a situation where we're free to pretty much do what we want."

Jon Fishman, American Musician

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"To be born in Wales, not with a silver spoon in your mouth, but, with music in your blood and with poetry in your soul, is a privilege indeed."

Brian Harris, American Lawyer

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"I run around, I listen to a lot of music, go to a lot of concerts. And when I see someone that gases me, I try to go out of my way to involve them somehow in what I'm doing or get involved in what they're doing."

John Zorn, American Composer

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"But I'm pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people."

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"Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I'm referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man."

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"I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on."

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"I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music."

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"There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what for me is inexpressible by any other means."

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"I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me."

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"To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me."

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"I never could get over the fact that The Pixies formed, worked and separated without America taking them to its heart or even recognizing their existence for the most part."

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"It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece."

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"On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts."

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