"See my father knew a lot about music, he played the piano and he would do theory and stuff like that, but I didn't learn anything from him, but I played that for him and he liked it a lot."

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"See my father knew a lot about music, he played the piano and he would do theory and stuff like that, but I didn't learn anything from him, but I played that for him and he liked it a lot."

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

Bob Dylan, American Musician

Music, Song

"People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas."

Bob Dylan, American Musician

Music, People, Ideas, Being

"All truthful music is familiar to the ear, for its notes were written into our souls long ago."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Music, Truth, Wisdom, Power, Life

"Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music."

Warren Zevon, American Musician

Music, Folk

"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."

Bob Dylan, American Musician

Music, Land, World

"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

Music, Crime, Cruelty, Oppression

"I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too."

Carter Burwell, American Composer

Music,

"How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me."

Carter Burwell, American Composer

Music, Mystery

"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

"Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound."

Eduard Hanslick, German Writer

Music, Nothing, Sound

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"But I say these things in an objective dispassionate manner because, you know, and I can't explain why, but being one of the greatest guitarists in the world simply is not very important to me."

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"Well I was on the one hand, the more I played the guitar the more I began to really love the guitar and to love virtually any kind of music that anybody played well on guitar."

Love

"So I learnt a few country western songs, I bought a chord book, and right away I started writing my own stuff, which nobody else did that, I don't know why."

Country

"When I play, I very quickly put myself into a light hypnotic trance and compose while playing, drawing directly from the emotions."

Emotional

"The other thing in composition is opening up the unconscious."

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"As soon as the groupie finds out that you make errors in everyday life like everybody else does and that you are human, they turn on you and hate you."

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

"People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas."

"All truthful music is familiar to the ear, for its notes were written into our souls long ago."

"Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music."

"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."

"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music."

"I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too."

"How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me."

"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."

"Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound."

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"Regarding fame, fortune and Oregon I do wish I had more money."

"Being worshipped is a horrible experience."

"How can I be a folk? I'm from the suburbs you know."

"From a social perspective, I am looking for friends, not acolytes."

"But I say these things in an objective dispassionate manner because, you know, and I can't explain why, but being one of the greatest guitarists in the world simply is not very important to me."

"Well I was on the one hand, the more I played the guitar the more I began to really love the guitar and to love virtually any kind of music that anybody played well on guitar."

"So I learnt a few country western songs, I bought a chord book, and right away I started writing my own stuff, which nobody else did that, I don't know why."

"When I play, I very quickly put myself into a light hypnotic trance and compose while playing, drawing directly from the emotions."

"The other thing in composition is opening up the unconscious."

"As soon as the groupie finds out that you make errors in everyday life like everybody else does and that you are human, they turn on you and hate you."