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"Music is the primordial language of life. That is why we love it so much. Actually every animal can hear and understand music better than we do."

"If I had the choice, I would sing only love songs."

"He had a theory that musicians are incredibly complex, and know far less than other artists what they want and what they are; that they puzzle themselves as well as their friends; that their psychology is a modern development, and has not yet been understood."
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"So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning."

"The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be, "No.""

"To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable."

"Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness."

"You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today."
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