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Bill Bruford

"I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds of musicians: the ones who wrote music and the ones who didn't."

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"I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds of musicians: the ones who wrote music and the ones who didn't."

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"Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows."

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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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"When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest."

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"Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart."

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

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

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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."

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

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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!"

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