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"Music was our wife, and we loved her. And we stayed with her, and we clothed her, and we put diamond rings on her hands."
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"Music is happiness with a steady pulse."
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"When can you understand that the music you play is very good? It is when people look at you but see no one, no one but the music!"
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"As the strings of a lute are apart though they quiver the same music."
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"Music is the melody whose text is the world."
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"If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music."
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"Music is well said to be the speech of angels."
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"To understand fully the importance of music, you must try to image a world without music! Such a world would be a world of hopelessness and boredom!"
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"As I fingered my way through the songs, I felt my worries slough away. My music has always been the best remedy for my dark moods. As I sang, even my bruises seemed to pain me less."
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"So when a man surrenders to the sound of music and lets its sweet, soft, mournful strains, which we have just described, be funnelled into his soul through his ears, and gives up all his time to the glamorous moanings of song, the effect at first on his energy and initiative of mind, if he has any, is to soften it as iron is softened in a furnace, and made workable instead of hard and unworkable: but if he persists and does not break the enchantment, the next stage is that it melts and runs, till the spirit has quite run out of him and his mental sinews (if I may so put it) are cut, and he has become what Homer calls "a feeble fighter"."
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"I discovered that the most interesting music of all was made by simply lining the loops in unison, and letting them slowly shift out of phase with other."
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"Every day I look forward to getting with my instruments, trying new things."
Day
"Playing gives me as much good feeling now as it did when I was a bitty kid."
Feelings
"Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind."
Gratitude
"Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating."
Talking
"Music was our wife, and we loved her. And we stayed with her, and we clothed her, and we put diamond rings on her hands."
Music
"I feel honored to have been a part of that dramatic change."
Change
"I think I love it more as I get older because I keep getting better on drums, vibes and piano."
Love
"I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s."
Chicago
"So I always figured I'd still be playing at this age."
Age
"Working with Benny was important for me and for black musicians in general."
Musicians
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