"The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically gaurantee hit records."

Music, Careers, Name, Names

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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

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"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

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"Music is the fertilizer for heart to bloom the flower of love and peace."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. It's the closest music to our humanity - it's like a folk music that rises up out of a culture."

Sonny Terry, American Musician

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"The best songs I write in 20 minutes."

Evan Dando, American Musician

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"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

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"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

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"And you know, I've had great fun turning quite a lot of different industries on their head and making sure those industries will never be the same again, because Virgin went in and took them on."

Fun, Will

"Like getting into a bleeding competition with a blood bank."

Blood, Competition

"Nobody's ever called me Sir Richard. Occasionally in America, I hear people saying Sir Richard and think there's some Shakespearean play taking place. But nowhere else anyway."

People, America, Play, Saying

"The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world."

Life, Work, Balloons, World

"I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life."

Life, Love, Freedom

"We believe that within five years, 96 percent of British consumers will have access to the Internet, whether it be through a personal computer, a set-top box or a mobile phone."

Computer, Internet, Will, Years

"Fortunately we're not a public company - we're a private group of companies, and I can do what I want."

Entrepreneurship, Company, Public, Want

"With the casino and the beds, our passengers will have at least two ways to get lucky on one of our flights."

Marketing, Beds, Will

"Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won't make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa - and it's about getting a balance."

Life, Money, Work, People

"I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I - if I'm not interested in something, I don't grasp it."

Old, School, Tests, Understanding