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"One cannot imagine Scots music and song without the contribution of Burns."
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"One must indeed test the strings to this life, bounce the bow, wet the mouthpiece, prepare for the deeper music that follows."
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"Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that."
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"Music reveals the deepest beauty of the soul."
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"Music fills the void between the heart and soul and connects them in heavenly delights."
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"I listen to music constantly while writing."
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"Music heard so deeplyThat it is not heard at all, butyou are the musicWhile the music lasts."
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"Music is the song of eternal love which touches the soul and fills us with joy."
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"I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation."
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"Music is the language of the universe, which everyone, including all animals, can understand."
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"Tax not so bad a voice to slander music any more than once."
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"And thus it was that I started to wonder why Robert Burns is so important to us. We have other poets, and other writers, and other heroes, yet we do not afford them the veneration that we afford to Robert Burns."
Heroes
"There does not seem to be that collegiality I referred to, there seems to be much more of a them versus us attitude, rather than we all have a role to play in this process so let's get on with it."
Attitude
"There are even more statues of Robert Burns than of any other figure in world literature. Indeed if we discount figures of religion, then only Christopher Columbus has more statues than he worldwide."
Religion
"Besides, I always thought that one of the great attractions of practising law was what I like to call the collegiality of the profession and I think that duty of collegiality applies even when we are retired."
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"One cannot imagine Scots music and song without the contribution of Burns."
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"And on 25 January of each year and for many days before it and after it there is not an hour in the day or night when a Burns Supper is not taking place somewhere on this earth."
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"For in the works of Robert Burns we see the whole cosmos of man's experience and emotion, from zenith to nadir, from birth until death."
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"I think that practising the law, particularly litigation, and particularly in Glasgow, has always been difficult enough without adding to it by having problems with professional colleagues or former colleagues."
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"If I was starting off now, I would probably have taken one or two different turnings along the way."
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"Having said that, I enjoyed every minute of my time and I got a degree of job satisfaction which I am sure was far greater than the majority of my colleagues."
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