"I'm sure there are a few things in my CD collection that might surprise people. I like classical music, the blues, and I'm a big fan of alternative rock."

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"I'm sure there are a few things in my CD collection that might surprise people. I like classical music, the blues, and I'm a big fan of alternative rock."

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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

Music, Truth, Memory, Happiness

"Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

Music, Dance, Speech, Stars

"I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world."

Peter Ustinov, English Actor

Music, Laughter, Sound, World

"I'm half Jewish, I'm half black, I look in-between. I dress funny. I play all these different styles of music on one record. It's like, What is he doing?"

Lenny Kravitz, American Musician

Music, Funny, Dress, Play

"Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune."

Miguel De Cervantes, Spanish Novelist

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"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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"Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune."

Kin Hubbard, American Journalist

Music, Thinking, Will

"I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs."

Taylor Swift, American Musician

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"Orgy-porgy, round and round and round, beating one another in six-eight time."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

Music, Violence, Repetition, Life

"Well my music was different in high school; I was singing about love - you know, things I don't care about anymore."

Lady Gaga, American Musician

Music, Change, Identity, Growth

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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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