"I think that a song, when it works, never mind a piece of long form music, even a song is something that speaks to itself but has a language all of its own, ideally."

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"I think that a song, when it works, never mind a piece of long form music, even a song is something that speaks to itself but has a language all of its own, ideally."

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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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"Harpists spend half their life tuning and the other half playing out of tune."

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"Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

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"Music is the fertilizer for heart to bloom the flower of love and peace."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Music opens the window of the soul to let the nectar of life come in."

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"Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense."

Joseph Addison, English Writer

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"You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. It's the closest music to our humanity - it's like a folk music that rises up out of a culture."

Sonny Terry, American Musician

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Evan Dando, American Musician

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"I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world."

Peter Ustinov, English Actor

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"I'm half Jewish, I'm half black, I look in-between. I dress funny. I play all these different styles of music on one record. It's like, What is he doing?"

Lenny Kravitz, American Musician

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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."

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"Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars."

"Music is the fertilizer for heart to bloom the flower of love and peace."

"Music opens the window of the soul to let the nectar of life come in."

"Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense."

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"I think that a song, when it works, never mind a piece of long form music, even a song is something that speaks to itself but has a language all of its own, ideally."