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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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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"Strains of music spring up, crystallizing in the night air like rain turning suddenly to snow, drifting to earth."
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"I was about sixteen when I discovered that music could get you laid, so I got into music boy, didn't matter what you looked like either, you could be a geeky looking guy but if you played music, whoa, you'd get the girls."
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"Music is happiness with a steady pulse."
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Personal Development
"Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory."
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"Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows."
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"If you have a recital to do, you have to memorize the songs. I never use music when I do recitals. It produces an instant barrier, both for yourself and the audience."
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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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"As for sacred polyphony, there is no reason to be afraid of it."
Reason
"The democratic and pedestrian character of the new Mass itself seems to invite the ditties that pass for hymns these days."
Character
"When the truth is that there would be no great Western music, and certainly no decent choral repertoire, without the Catholic faith."
Faith
"At St. Francis de Sales in Atlanta, we do not have an organ. We do not have rehearsals during the week. We do not have a professional choir."
Sales
"The pastor of a parish will typically have no education in the chant or in music, and he will hire the first music director who walks through the door."
Education
"All you hear Catholics turning out these days are pop versions of the old Protestant anthems."
Old
"And this speaks to the larger problem that no one wants to talk about: the restoration of the Roman rite is a precondition for a long-term fix for the problem."
Talk
"The tunes, rhythms, and messages are drawn mainly from secular culture."
Culture
"You can count on one hand the number of Novus Ordo churches in this country that feature a fully Catholic music program of any quality, consistent with the Roman rite tradition."
Music
"There's nothing stupider than bursting into song for seven seconds and then falling silent again."
Nothing
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