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"Music is happiness with a steady pulse."
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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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"As the strings of a lute are apart though they quiver the same music."
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"Music is the melody whose text is the world."
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"If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music."
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"Music is well said to be the speech of angels."
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"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!"
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"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."
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"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"."
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"I discovered that the most interesting music of all was made by simply lining the loops in unison, and letting them slowly shift out of phase with other."
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"Just as we have two eyes and two feet, duality is part of life."
Life
"First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that."
Music
"Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you."
Music
"I'm laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I know that I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing."
Life
"Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins."
People
"My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly."
Life
"When a baby comes you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and the smell of lilies, the flower of another garden, the spiritual garden."
Baby
"If our history can challenge the next wave of musicians to keep moving and changing, to keep spiritually hungry and horny, that's what it's all about."
History
"The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold."
Devil
"The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace."
Peace
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