"I had a big background in listening to classical music and I started trying to compose, like I was playing the guitar but I heard an orchestra in my head."

Music, Guitar, Listening, Trying

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"I had a big background in listening to classical music and I started trying to compose, like I was playing the guitar but I heard an orchestra in my head."

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

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

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"Music is the language of the soul and the expression of deep inner feelings."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God."

Martin Luther, German Leader

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"What is my definition of jazz? 'Safe sex of the highest order."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

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"They say that the eyes of some paintings can follow you around the room, a fact that I doubt, but I am wondering whether some music can follow you for ever."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"No one can any longer write in the fat style of Strauss. That was killed by Stravinsky. He stripped the body of much of its clothes. Music is the craft of building structures with sound and that is what Stravinsky represents."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

Music, Change, Structure, Art

"Music is healing and soothing. It is the universal language of kindness and love."

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"Music is the only language which can be understood by everyone-even a tree can understand music."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Music, Universal, Language, Understanding

"I worked with three people who were doing video music shows before MTV."

Nina Blackwood, American Celebrity

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"Absolute 80's is three hours of mainstream 80's music. I also do New Wave Nation that is more cutting edge. It is more punk stuff from the 70's to the 90's."

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"See my father knew a lot about music, he played the piano and he would do theory and stuff like that, but I didn't learn anything from him, but I played that for him and he liked it a lot."

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"How can I be a folk? I'm from the suburbs you know."

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"The other thing in composition is opening up the unconscious."

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"But I say these things in an objective dispassionate manner because, you know, and I can't explain why, but being one of the greatest guitarists in the world simply is not very important to me."

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"As soon as the groupie finds out that you make errors in everyday life like everybody else does and that you are human, they turn on you and hate you."

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"Well when I made my first record I thought it would be a good joke to have me on one side, have the lable say John Fahey on one side, and this guy Blind Joe Death on the other side."

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"Regarding fame, fortune and Oregon I do wish I had more money."

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

"Music is the language of the soul and the expression of deep inner feelings."

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"What is my definition of jazz? 'Safe sex of the highest order."

"They say that the eyes of some paintings can follow you around the room, a fact that I doubt, but I am wondering whether some music can follow you for ever."

"No one can any longer write in the fat style of Strauss. That was killed by Stravinsky. He stripped the body of much of its clothes. Music is the craft of building structures with sound and that is what Stravinsky represents."

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"I just want to be treated like an average guy."

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"See my father knew a lot about music, he played the piano and he would do theory and stuff like that, but I didn't learn anything from him, but I played that for him and he liked it a lot."

"How can I be a folk? I'm from the suburbs you know."

"The other thing in composition is opening up the unconscious."

"But I say these things in an objective dispassionate manner because, you know, and I can't explain why, but being one of the greatest guitarists in the world simply is not very important to me."

"As soon as the groupie finds out that you make errors in everyday life like everybody else does and that you are human, they turn on you and hate you."

"Well when I made my first record I thought it would be a good joke to have me on one side, have the lable say John Fahey on one side, and this guy Blind Joe Death on the other side."

"Regarding fame, fortune and Oregon I do wish I had more money."