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"I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw."
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"If I had the choice, I would sing only love songs."
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"They say that the eyes of some paintings can follow you around the room, a fact that I doubt, but I am wondering whether some music can follow you for ever."
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"In music the passions enjoy themselves."
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"Music expresses those thoughts and words, which have no form but have longing for love."
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"No one can any longer write in the fat style of Strauss. That was killed by Stravinsky. He stripped the body of much of its clothes. Music is the craft of building structures with sound and that is what Stravinsky represents."
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"A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!"
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"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent."
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"Because when he sings...even the birds stop to listen."
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"When I first came to Nashville, people hardly gave country music any respect. We lived in old cars and dirty hotels, and we ate when we could."
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"A melody occurs to you; you sing it silently, inwardly ... ; you steep your being in it; it takes possession of all your strength and emotions, and during the time it lives in you, it effaces all that is fortuitous, evil, coarse and sad in you; it brings the world into harmony with you, it makes burdens light and gives wings to the benumbed."
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"It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it."
Preparation
"For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art."
Art
"I build a kind of wall between myself and t he model so that I can paint in peace behind it. Otherwise, she might say something that confuses and distracts me."
Peace
"When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness."
Enemy
"No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love."
Love
"Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder."
Health
"Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light."
Death
"I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell."
Life
"I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw."
Music
"A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself."
Self-Perception
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