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Lewis Thomas

"Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind."

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"Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind."

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

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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."

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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."

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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."

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Amber Hurdle

"I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music."

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Amber Hurdle

"The actual writing of a song usually comes in the form of a realisation. I can't contrive a song."

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"Strains of music spring up, crystallizing in the night air like rain turning suddenly to snow, drifting to earth."

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Amber Hurdle

"We became the songs we wrote."

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"We are built to make mistakes, coded for error."
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"Human language... prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand."
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"The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most things, in fact, are better in the morning."
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"We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still."
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"It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks; we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the enzymes of grasses to those of whales is in fact a family resemblance."
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"Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind."
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