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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."

"There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is."

"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."

"Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that."

"Music reveals the deepest beauty of the soul."

"Music is the fastest motivator in the world."

"Music has the ability to express in the upbeat every brilliant aspect of existence, while on the downbeat convey the anguish that a human being experiences when apprehending the fleeting nature of time, and the mysterious torture of living and dying. Music stands alone in its ability to communicate the symbols and phases of life, both being and nonbeing."
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"I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?"

"The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived."

"Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats."

"The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy."

"There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience."

"The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple."
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