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"After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not my own. Music always seems to me to produce that effect. It creates for one a past of which one has been ignorant, and fills one with a sense of sorrows that have been hidden from one's tears."
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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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"Strains of music spring up, crystallizing in the night air like rain turning suddenly to snow, drifting to earth."
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"Music is happiness with a steady pulse."
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Personal Development
"Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows."
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"I just like to entertain myself by sitting down and writing songs."
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"Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel. I have always needed Fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio."
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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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"When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest."
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"You cannot taste a song but you can feel the tune relishing your heart where strings of music belong."
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"Orgy-porgy, round and round and round, beating one another in six-eight time."
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"When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers."
God
"In married life three is company and two none."
Life
"Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible."
Philosophy
"For what is truth? In matters of religion, it is simply the opinion that has survived. In matters of science, it is the ultimate sensation. In matters of art, it is one's last mood."
Philosophy
"God and other artists are always a little obscure....."
God
"The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for."
Philosophy
"Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development."
Philosophy
"I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked."
Philosophy
"There is a great deal to be said in favour of reading a novel backwards. The last page is as a rule the most interesting, and when one begins with the catastrophe or the dA©nouement one feels on pleasant terms of equality with the author. It is like going behind the scenes of a theatre. One is no longer taken in, and the hair-breadth escapes of the hero and the wild agonies of the heroine leave one absolutely unmoved. One knows the jealously guarded secret, and one can afford to smile at the quite unnecessary anxiety that the puppets of fiction always consider it their duty to display."
Literature
"There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful."
Philosophy
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