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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!"

"As the strings of a lute are apart though they quiver the same music."

"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!"

"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."

"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"."
Explore more quotes by Ralph Bakshi

"I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights."

"I would like to have the original ending to my Lord of the Rings instead of the one they released. In my original cut I had the victory at Helm's Deep as the final sequence."

"I miss animation very passionately. Not continuously, but every once in a while I would die to do another film."

"All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives."

"As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks."

"Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art."
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