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"Many fail to realize this great recording industry was built by so-called jazz artists. And at the other end of the spectrum, a base in European classical music as well."
Ahmad Jamal
"Many fail to realize this great recording industry was built by so-called jazz artists. And at the other end of the spectrum, a base in European classical music as well."
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"Strains of music spring up, crystallizing in the night air like rain turning suddenly to snow, drifting to earth."
Lauren Oliver
"Strains of music spring up, crystallizing in the night air like rain turning suddenly to snow, drifting to earth."
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"Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder."
John Ruskin
"Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder."
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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
"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?"
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"Let's have the music that will open the door to millions of people... the kind of music that will not make people think only of the song or even of the singer... not music that is confined to the merely personal."
Nelson Eddy
"Let's have the music that will open the door to millions of people... the kind of music that will not make people think only of the song or even of the singer... not music that is confined to the merely personal."
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"Your imagination is the vehicle to enlightenment."
Gary Hopkins
"Your imagination is the vehicle to enlightenment."
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"If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together."
Richard M. Nixon
"If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together."
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"The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world, it will acceptthose whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected."
E. M. Forster
"The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world, it will acceptthose whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected."
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"What's all this about sin, eh?''That,' I said, very sick. 'Using Ludwig van like that. He did no harm to anyone. Beethoven just wrote music.' And then I was really sick and they had to bring a bowl that was in the shape of like a kidney.'Music,' said Dr. Brodsky, like musing. 'So you're keen on music. I know nothing about it myself. It's a useful emotional heightener, that's all I know. Well, well. What do you think about that, eh, Branom?''It can't be helped,' said Dr. Branom. 'Each man kills the thing he loves..."
Anthony Burgess
"What's all this about sin, eh?''That,' I said, very sick. 'Using Ludwig van like that. He did no harm to anyone. Beethoven just wrote music.' And then I was really sick and they had to bring a bowl that was in the shape of like a kidney.'Music,' said Dr. Brodsky, like musing. 'So you're keen on music. I know nothing about it myself. It's a useful emotional heightener, that's all I know. Well, well. What do you think about that, eh, Branom?''It can't be helped,' said Dr. Branom. 'Each man kills the thing he loves..."
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"Music can touch that deepest portion of the soul where nothing else can reach. It can fill our hearts with indescribable ecstasy."
Debasish Mridha
"Music can touch that deepest portion of the soul where nothing else can reach. It can fill our hearts with indescribable ecstasy."
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"There was one man who was interested in the color of music, the connection between light and music, and that was Einstein."
Leon Theremin
"There was one man who was interested in the color of music, the connection between light and music, and that was Einstein."
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"Some of the wise boys who say my music is loud, blatant and that's all should see the faces of the kids who have driven a hundred miles through the snow to see the band... to stand in front of the bandstand in an ecstasy all their own."
Stan Kenton
"Some of the wise boys who say my music is loud, blatant and that's all should see the faces of the kids who have driven a hundred miles through the snow to see the band... to stand in front of the bandstand in an ecstasy all their own."
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"Whenever you play dance music, it serves a function. It becomes a utility; you have to worry about the tempos and what you're going to play for people. But when you're playing for listening, you're free."
Stan Kenton
"Whenever you play dance music, it serves a function. It becomes a utility; you have to worry about the tempos and what you're going to play for people. But when you're playing for listening, you're free."
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"Tax not so bad a voice to slander music any more than once."
William Shakespeare
"Tax not so bad a voice to slander music any more than once."
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"Music is the language of the universe, which everyone, including all animals, can understand."
Debasish Mridha
"Music is the language of the universe, which everyone, including all animals, can understand."
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"The 1960s were big for folk music, and the Kingston Trio led the way. They were the ones who started it all. The music was fresh and alive. College kids loved it and their parents did, too."
George Grove
"The 1960s were big for folk music, and the Kingston Trio led the way. They were the ones who started it all. The music was fresh and alive. College kids loved it and their parents did, too."
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"The only thing I was any good at was music."
Don Gibson
"The only thing I was any good at was music."
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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
"Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that."
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"Musicians should not play music. Music should play musicians."
Henry Rollins
"Musicians should not play music. Music should play musicians."
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"Music is the only language which can be understood by everyone-even a tree can understand music."
Debasish Mridha
"Music is the only language which can be understood by everyone-even a tree can understand music."
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"If I would have listened, if I would have understood diabetes like I understood music, maybe these things wouldn't have happened."
Marvin Isley
"If I would have listened, if I would have understood diabetes like I understood music, maybe these things wouldn't have happened."
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"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent."
Victor Hugo
"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent."
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"Speaking unspoken words,music is a good way to say."
Toba Beta
"Speaking unspoken words,music is a good way to say."
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"An ear for music is very different from a taste for music. I have no ear whatever I could not sing an air to save my life but I have the intensest delight in music and can detect good from bad."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"An ear for music is very different from a taste for music. I have no ear whatever I could not sing an air to save my life but I have the intensest delight in music and can detect good from bad."
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"Music is the most beautiful magic which can mesmerize everyone."
Debasish Mridha
"Music is the most beautiful magic which can mesmerize everyone."
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"When I'd tell people I like country music they'd get this look on their faces. People were kind of ashamed of country."
Loretta Lynn
"When I'd tell people I like country music they'd get this look on their faces. People were kind of ashamed of country."
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"Music can touch and heal that secret wound of the soul which nothing else can reach."
Debasish Mridha
"Music can touch and heal that secret wound of the soul which nothing else can reach."
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"It was some of Solomon's favorite music because it was dense and intellectually complicated and he wasn't expected to dance to it."
James S.A. Corey
"It was some of Solomon's favorite music because it was dense and intellectually complicated and he wasn't expected to dance to it."
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"Great songs don't grow on trees, yet lots of songs have been written on great trees."
Benny Bellamacina
"Great songs don't grow on trees, yet lots of songs have been written on great trees."
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"I discovered that the most interesting music of all was made by simply lining the loops in unison, and letting them slowly shift out of phase with other."
Steve Reich
"I discovered that the most interesting music of all was made by simply lining the loops in unison, and letting them slowly shift out of phase with other."
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"Music is the eternal language of love for every living species."
Debasish Mridha
"Music is the eternal language of love for every living species."
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"As the strings of a lute are apart though they quiver the same music."
Kahlil Gibran
"As the strings of a lute are apart though they quiver the same music."
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"Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously."
Henry Miller
"Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously."
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"Music is not my life. My life is music."
Criss Jami
"Music is not my life. My life is music."
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"Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel. I have always needed Fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio."
Hunter S. Thompson
"Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel. I have always needed Fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio."
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"I was honoured when they asked me to appear at the president's birthday rally in Madison Square Garden. There was like a hush over the whole place when I came on to sing 'Happy Birthday,' like if I had been wearing a slip, I would have thought it was showing or something. I thought, 'Oh, my gosh, what if no sound comes out!'"
Marilyn Monroe
"I was honoured when they asked me to appear at the president's birthday rally in Madison Square Garden. There was like a hush over the whole place when I came on to sing 'Happy Birthday,' like if I had been wearing a slip, I would have thought it was showing or something. I thought, 'Oh, my gosh, what if no sound comes out!'"
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"The heavenly sound of music kindles my heart, twinkles my mind, and feeds my soul so that I may transcend and transform."
Debasish Mridha
"The heavenly sound of music kindles my heart, twinkles my mind, and feeds my soul so that I may transcend and transform."
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"He had a theory that musicians are incredibly complex, and know far less than other artists what they want and what they are; that they puzzle themselves as well as their friends; that their psychology is a modern development, and has not yet been understood."
E. M. Forster
"He had a theory that musicians are incredibly complex, and know far less than other artists what they want and what they are; that they puzzle themselves as well as their friends; that their psychology is a modern development, and has not yet been understood."
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"Music is the sound of unspoken thoughts."
Dan Groat
"Music is the sound of unspoken thoughts."
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"Music heard so deeplyThat it is not heard at all, butyou are the musicWhile the music lasts."
T. S. Eliot
"Music heard so deeplyThat it is not heard at all, butyou are the musicWhile the music lasts."
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"I listen to music constantly while writing."
Orson Scott Card
"I listen to music constantly while writing."
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"We could argue about what constitutes the creepiest line in pop music, but for me it's early Beatles- John Lennon, actually- singing 'I'd rather see you dead, little girl, than to be with another man."
Stephen King
"We could argue about what constitutes the creepiest line in pop music, but for me it's early Beatles- John Lennon, actually- singing 'I'd rather see you dead, little girl, than to be with another man."
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"When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest."
Henry David Thoreau
"When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest."
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"Gay nightclubs offer better dance music."
Jack Davenport
"Gay nightclubs offer better dance music."
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"Music is the language of the heart. It can only sing songs of love."
Debasish Mridha
"Music is the language of the heart. It can only sing songs of love."
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"Music is the language of the universe. Music was there even before the concept of life. Music is one of the most powerful catalysts of evolution."
Debasish Mridha
"Music is the language of the universe. Music was there even before the concept of life. Music is one of the most powerful catalysts of evolution."
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"I think that most people who write about music just want to fill some paper. They're not really interested in getting to the heart of something. Otherwise, they wouldn't write what they write."
Tim Gane
"I think that most people who write about music just want to fill some paper. They're not really interested in getting to the heart of something. Otherwise, they wouldn't write what they write."
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"Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart."
Henry Ward Beecher
"Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart."
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"It is not your mouth that sings. It is your mind and heart that sing."
Debasish Mridha
"It is not your mouth that sings. It is your mind and heart that sing."
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"True music begins when the song of your soul finds its tune and the emotions of your heart find their voices."
Debasish Mridha
"True music begins when the song of your soul finds its tune and the emotions of your heart find their voices."
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