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"One must indeed test the strings to this life, bounce the bow, wet the mouthpiece, prepare for the deeper music that follows."

"Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that."

"Music reveals the deepest beauty of the soul."

"Music heard so deeplyThat it is not heard at all, butyou are the musicWhile the music lasts."

"I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation."
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"I'm standing up thinking. Anybody who wants to listen is welcome. If not, I'm happy to see them go."

"There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation."

"While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song."

"The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer."

"It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel."

"I reserve the right to tell shaggy dog stories or even common jokes as part of what I'm doing. I don't give a damn if half the audience walks out."

"I've always had a strong feeling for the Statue of Liberty, because it became the statue of my personal liberty."

"There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be."
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