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"Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos?"

"Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos?"

Igor Stravinsky, Russian Composer

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"Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film."

"Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film."

Jessica Hagedorn, Filipino Writer

Music, Film, Theater, Writing

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"Anywhere you had a commerce center, you had a lot of music."

"Anywhere you had a commerce center, you had a lot of music."

Ruben Blades, Panamanian Musician

Music, Commerce

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"Music exists for the purpose of growing an admirable heart."

"Music exists for the purpose of growing an admirable heart."

Shinichi Suzuki, Japanese Educator

Music, Heart, Purpose

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"Rock is young music, it is youth oriented. It just speaks for a generation."

"Rock is young music, it is youth oriented. It just speaks for a generation."

Ruben Blades, Panamanian Musician

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"Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song."

"Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song."

Ville Valo, Finnish Musician

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"Growing up, I was very much interested in jazz music."

"Growing up, I was very much interested in jazz music."

Jan Hammer, Czech Musician

Music, Growing up, Jazz

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"What is interesting in this is the exchange of music that occurred between New Orleans and Cuba, I mean, they had ferries that would go from one port to another."

"What is interesting in this is the exchange of music that occurred between New Orleans and Cuba, I mean, they had ferries that would go from one port to another."

Ruben Blades, Panamanian Musician

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"I think I'm a music fan before anything else."

"I think I'm a music fan before anything else."

Nuno Bettencourt, Portuguese Musician

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"The music I do is food... that will be your dinner."

"The music I do is food... that will be your dinner."

Ziggy Marley, Jamaican Musician

Music, Food, Will

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"It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story."

"It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story."

James Baldwin, American Educator

Music, America, Americans, Limits

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"I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping."

"I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping."

Nina Simone, American Musician

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"The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do."

"The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do."

Keith Richards, English Musician

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"They've been brought up on the best music. It's gonna be so good."

"They've been brought up on the best music. It's gonna be so good."

Sean Booth, English Musician

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"I confess that I listen to my own music for my own pleasure."

"I confess that I listen to my own music for my own pleasure."

Herb Alpert, American Musician

Music, Pleasure

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"If some of our works are symphonies, then wrapped walkways was chamber music."

"If some of our works are symphonies, then wrapped walkways was chamber music."

Christo, Bulgarian Artist

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"I think Bridge Over Troubled Water was a very good song. Artie sang it beautifully. The Boxer was a really nice record. But I don't think I've written any great songs."

"I think Bridge Over Troubled Water was a very good song. Artie sang it beautifully. The Boxer was a really nice record. But I don't think I've written any great songs."

Paul Simon, American Musician

Music, Song, Songs, Water

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"As Governor, I could think of only one way to unify our State that was made up of so many different climates, political beliefs and people, and that was our music."

"As Governor, I could think of only one way to unify our State that was made up of so many different climates, political beliefs and people, and that was our music."

Lamar Alexander, American Politician

Music, People, Beliefs, State

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"I always dreamed of being Maria in The Sound of Music."

"I always dreamed of being Maria in The Sound of Music."

Victoria Jackson, American Comedian

Music, Being, Sound

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"Jim, as just a spoken poet, was not that good. He needed the music behind him. He felt a security and a sense of abandon when the music existed around him."

"Jim, as just a spoken poet, was not that good. He needed the music behind him. He felt a security and a sense of abandon when the music existed around him."

Ray Manzarek, American Musician

Music, Security, Sense

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"Mainly I was able to perform with music - I played the French horn, I would sing, and I was a drummer in the pipe band. So I think it was a way to show off."

"Mainly I was able to perform with music - I played the French horn, I would sing, and I was a drummer in the pipe band. So I think it was a way to show off."

Ewan McGregor, Scottish Actor

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"It is easy to write unthinking music."

"It is easy to write unthinking music."

George Crumb, American Composer

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"First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that."

"First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that."

Carlos Santana, Mexican Musician

Music, People, African, Credit

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"I think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big."

"I think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big."

Maynard James Keenan, American Musician

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"Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music."

"Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music."

Jimi Hendrix, American Musician

Music, Lie, World

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"This music isn't Top 40, we really stand out from anyone."

"This music isn't Top 40, we really stand out from anyone."

Dustin Diamond, American Actor

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"There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres."

"There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres."

Pythagoras, Greek Mathematician

Music, Geometry

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"Music can heal the wounds which medicine cannot touch."

"Music can heal the wounds which medicine cannot touch."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Music, Heal, Wounds, Medicine

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"Beyond a certain point, the music isn't mine anymore. It's yours."

"Beyond a certain point, the music isn't mine anymore. It's yours."

Phil Collins, English Musician

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"For me, how I feel about what I wrote down turns into a song."

"For me, how I feel about what I wrote down turns into a song."

Geddy Lee, Canadian Musician

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"I was a schooled musician. When I made 'Blue Velvet', I told everyone what to do. I was an arranger. I learned music in school I told the band to play this. I told the guitar to do that."

"I was a schooled musician. When I made 'Blue Velvet', I told everyone what to do. I was an arranger. I learned music in school I told the band to play this. I told the guitar to do that."

Bobby Vinton, American Musician

Music, Guitar, Play, School

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"Music inflames temperament."

"Music inflames temperament."

Jim Morrison, American Musician

Music, Temperament

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"My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die."

"My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die."

Bob Marley, Jamaican Musician

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"They all knew my name, but no one heard the music - I didn't look the same."

"They all knew my name, but no one heard the music - I didn't look the same."

Ricky Nelson, American Musician

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"But times changed, and I changed, and I didn't feel that way anymore. The Beatles were happening. I think that was probably the main thing. The Beatles just changed the whole world of music."

"But times changed, and I changed, and I didn't feel that way anymore. The Beatles were happening. I think that was probably the main thing. The Beatles just changed the whole world of music."

Barry McGuire, American Musician

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"In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance."

"In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance."

Franz Liszt, Hungarian Composer

Music, Dance, Song

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"I wondered how people would take me being a country music singer. I thought about deviating from that and singing other things. But... it doesn't really make sense for me to try to be something that I'm not."

"I wondered how people would take me being a country music singer. I thought about deviating from that and singing other things. But... it doesn't really make sense for me to try to be something that I'm not."

Carrie Underwood, American Musician

Music, Thought, People, Being

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"Maybe it's the music that enables them to function like that, to always take everything as it comes and never complain about the misery, hardship or injustice."

"Maybe it's the music that enables them to function like that, to always take everything as it comes and never complain about the misery, hardship or injustice."

Wim Wenders, German Director

Music, Hardship, Injustice, Misery

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"To some degree, yeah, because I have to play a certain number of originals that might be considered avant-garde material. I realize though, that only a few people in the audience actually know what that music is, or understand it."

"To some degree, yeah, because I have to play a certain number of originals that might be considered avant-garde material. I realize though, that only a few people in the audience actually know what that music is, or understand it."

Archie Shepp, American Musician

Music, People, Play

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"Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die."

"Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die."

Paul Simon, American Musician

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"Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration."

"Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration."

Madeleine Stowe, American Actress

Music, Inspiration, Fact, Uniqueness

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"Instead of slashing my wrists, I just write a bunch of really crummy songs."

"Instead of slashing my wrists, I just write a bunch of really crummy songs."

Peter Steele, American Musician

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"Music is the shorthand of emotion."

"Music is the shorthand of emotion."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

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"When you do a show five days a week and one night a week, the way I was doing, you use up so much music every day that pretty soon you find yourself hustling for material."

"When you do a show five days a week and one night a week, the way I was doing, you use up so much music every day that pretty soon you find yourself hustling for material."

Tennessee Ernie Ford, American Musician

Music, Day, Night, Pretty

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"Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature."

"Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature."

Zhuang Zi, Chinese Philosopher

Music, Nature, Charity, Devotion

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"I mean Iggy and The Stooges first couple of albums I think sold twenty five thousand between the two of them you know and so to talk in terms of an underground I mean you have to go really to the independent labels and things like that."

"I mean Iggy and The Stooges first couple of albums I think sold twenty five thousand between the two of them you know and so to talk in terms of an underground I mean you have to go really to the independent labels and things like that."

Lester Bangs, American Critic

Music, First, Talk

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"If you really believe music is dangerous, you should let it go in one ear and out the other."

"If you really believe music is dangerous, you should let it go in one ear and out the other."

Jose Bergamin, Spanish Writer

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"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats."

"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats."

Albert Schweitzer, German Theologian

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"There was the best teachers from the Czech Philharmonic, highly dedicated people, some of the best musicians in the world passing on the knowledge about the country, about the principles, and about the music."

"There was the best teachers from the Czech Philharmonic, highly dedicated people, some of the best musicians in the world passing on the knowledge about the country, about the principles, and about the music."

Miroslav Vitous, Czechoslovakian Musician

Music, People, Knowledge, Country

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"I learned from my uncle that jazz, like symphony music, was built to last."

"I learned from my uncle that jazz, like symphony music, was built to last."

David Amram, American Composer

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