"The development of new instrumental and vocal idioms has been one of the remarkable phenomena of recent music."

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"The development of new instrumental and vocal idioms has been one of the remarkable phenomena of recent music."

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

Bob Dylan, American Musician

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

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

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"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."

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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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"Strains of music spring up, crystallizing in the night air like rain turning suddenly to snow, drifting to earth."

Lauren Oliver, American Author

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"A tapping foot isn't the best a listener can get from a song: A good song makes a listener dance. A great song makes him think."

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"Music has always gotten me through life, particularly honest, real music."

Lisa Marie Presley, American Musician

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"I aim my arrangements at what will fit and colorfully frame the song in the best way possible."

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"I don't use old music."

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"One very important aspect of our contemporary musical culture - some might say the supremely important aspect - is its extension in the historical and geographical senses to a degree unknown in the past."

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"Writing seems to be more difficult as you move through the years."

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"In a broader sense, the rhythms of nature, large and small - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music."

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"I pick up the New York Times or Time and it's talking about the latest rock group, which I'm sure is exciting to some people, but it neglects a huge area of music."

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"Perhaps two million years ago the creatures of a planet in some remote galaxy faced a musical crisis similar to that which we earthly composers face today."

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"I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic."

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"The development of new instrumental and vocal idioms has been one of the remarkable phenomena of recent music."

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"If we look at music history closely, it is not difficult to isolate certain elements of great potency which were to nourish the art of music for decades, if not centuries."

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"I must confess, my Spanish is not so good - except I read a little, so I started with the English but then determined that it would have to be in Spanish."

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"It is easy to write unthinking music."

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