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Music Quotes
"The gift of song is just like... I think music is one of those true things in this world that is universal."
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"My mother had to explain that one couldn't compose a Liszt rhapsody because it was a piece of music that Liszt himself had composed."
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"Napster's only alleged liability is for contributory or vicarious infringement. So when Napster's users engage in noncommercial sharing of music, is that activity copyright infringement? No."
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"It is my hope that during my brief passage through this universe, that I may share with you the joy of hearing the music of the stars... knowing that the composer was from a distant place and the songs were written eons ago, which now fall gently on this place for all to hear."
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"The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect."
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"My dad's music was a great inspiration to me."
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"I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them fly high enough."
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"Other people notice the same things but they don't think to put it to music."
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"We're also passionate about music and very critical about the music that we listen to."
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"In these confused times, the role of classical music is at the very core of the struggle to reassert cultural and ethical values that have always characterized our country and for which we have traditionally been honored and respected outside our shores."
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"The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils."
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"I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens."
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"I think its so cool that you can pick up the guitar and create something that didn't exist 5 minutes ago. You can write something that no ones ever heard before. You have music at your fingertips."
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"Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician's curse."
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"I love the relationship that anyone has with music ... because there's something in us that is beyond the reach of words, something that eludes and defies our best attempts to spit it out. ... It's the best part of us probably ..."
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"Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them."
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"So when a man surrenders to the sound of music and lets its sweet, soft, mournful strains, which we have just described, be funnelled into his soul through his ears, and gives up all his time to the glamorous moanings of song, the effect at first on his energy and initiative of mind, if he has any, is to soften it as iron is softened in a furnace, and made workable instead of hard and unworkable: but if he persists and does not break the enchantment, the next stage is that it melts and runs, till the spirit has quite run out of him and his mental sinews (if I may so put it) are cut, and he has become what Homer calls "a feeble fighter"."
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"I have never acknowledged the difference between serious music and light music. There is only good music and bad music."
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"I wanted to create a picture in music of what could be up there in outer space."
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"After all my years of doing instrumental music I still like just a simple instrumental song with a nice catchy melody and an opportunity to play a solo over a harmonic structure."
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"In serial music, the series itself is seldom audible... What I'm interested in is a compositional process and a sounding music that are one in the same thing."
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"So film music is something I absolutely wanna get involved in."
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"If you listen to a lot of music, it gradually seeps into your consciousness or your unconsciousness and comes out in your music."
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"We're just beginning to learn the importance of music in our society."
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