"And the music, as far as a type of music, it's still pretty viable."

Music, Pretty

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"And the music, as far as a type of music, it's still pretty viable."

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"A song is anything that can walk by itself."

Bob Dylan, American Musician

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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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"All truthful music is familiar to the ear, for its notes were written into our souls long ago."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music."

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"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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"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

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"I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too."

Carter Burwell, American Composer

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"How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me."

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"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound."

Eduard Hanslick, German Writer

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"Folk-rock hasn't changed much over the decades since the Byrds started it."

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"I just play, and I'm always trying to write songs."

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"So I played the acoustic guitar and harmonica and stomped my foot and I think I was right in assuming that Greenwich Village would be the best place to perform my own material and possibly get some attention, move on to making records and all."

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"I relate to the audiences and they know me. It's pretty real."

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"It's often said that life is strange. But compared to what?"

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"I've had an advantage; I've had a sort of open public acceptance in New York that doesn't happen to just anyone trying to make the transition you were talking about."

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"I wouldn't be interested in just doing a show that's mapped out and choreographed with a set list. That would've been boring so long ago it just wouldn't be any fun."

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"But I'm able to just keep going, and that's the challenge. It's the next song. And then just enjoying the shows and people who come out to the shows. It's pretty organic, really."

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"I'm not trying to be the new anybody."

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"I don't cringe when I think of doing old material. A lot of the people have been with me through the years."

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