"Music is always a commentary on society."

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"Music is happiness with a steady pulse."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"When can you understand that the music you play is very good? It is when people look at you but see no one, no one but the music!"

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"As the strings of a lute are apart though they quiver the same music."

Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese Philosopher

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"Music is the melody whose text is the world."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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"If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music."

Albert Einstein, German Scientist

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"Music is well said to be the speech of angels."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

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"To understand fully the importance of music, you must try to image a world without music! Such a world would be a world of hopelessness and boredom!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"As I fingered my way through the songs, I felt my worries slough away. My music has always been the best remedy for my dark moods. As I sang, even my bruises seemed to pain me less."

Patrick Rothfuss, Australian Athlete

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"So when a man surrenders to the sound of music and lets its sweet, soft, mournful strains, which we have just described, be funnelled into his soul through his ears, and gives up all his time to the glamorous moanings of song, the effect at first on his energy and initiative of mind, if he has any, is to soften it as iron is softened in a furnace, and made workable instead of hard and unworkable: but if he persists and does not break the enchantment, the next stage is that it melts and runs, till the spirit has quite run out of him and his mental sinews (if I may so put it) are cut, and he has become what Homer calls "a feeble fighter"."

Plato, Greek Philosopher

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"I discovered that the most interesting music of all was made by simply lining the loops in unison, and letting them slowly shift out of phase with other."

Steve Reich, American Composer

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"It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia."

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"You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer."

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"Music is happiness with a steady pulse."

"When can you understand that the music you play is very good? It is when people look at you but see no one, no one but the music!"

"As the strings of a lute are apart though they quiver the same music."

"Music is the melody whose text is the world."

"If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music."

"Music is well said to be the speech of angels."

"To understand fully the importance of music, you must try to image a world without music! Such a world would be a world of hopelessness and boredom!"

"As I fingered my way through the songs, I felt my worries slough away. My music has always been the best remedy for my dark moods. As I sang, even my bruises seemed to pain me less."

"I discovered that the most interesting music of all was made by simply lining the loops in unison, and letting them slowly shift out of phase with other."

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"Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass."

"A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians."

"Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something."

"All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff."

"It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia."

"Music is always a commentary on society."

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