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“...."the sound of a barrel organ rising from the deepest golden vein of the day; two or three bars of a chorus, played on a distant piano over and over again, melting in the sun on the white paveme...”
“Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music. ”
“Has the industry done to music what McDonalds has done to eating?”
“Strange how potent cheap music is.”
“You can try and read my lyrics off of this paper before I lay 'emBut you won't take the sting out these words before I say 'em”
“I liked AC/DC," Lee said. "If you were going to shoot someone, you'd really want to do it while you were listening to them.""What about the Beatles? Did you feel like shooting anyone listening to t...”
“Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup. ”
“The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.”
“...And you're the only one who knows.”
“Does anybody know how I feel?Sometimes I'm numb...Sometimes I'm overcome...Does anybody care what's going on?Do I have to wear my scarsLike a badge on my arm?For you to see meI need to release”
“[The Head of Radio Three] had been ensnared by the Music Director of the college and a Professor of Philosophy. These two were busy explaining to the harassed man that the phrase "too much Mozart" ...”
“You can love a song, but you can form a bond with an album, a relationship that evolves as organically and beautifully as a marriage.”
“If you wanna make friends at the ATM, do the creep.”
“We have a lot of questions, and we want to understand.Music helps with that .Music helps with everything.”
“If I could be who you wanted, all the time”
“We imagined ourselves as the Sons of Liberty with a mission to preserve, protect, and project the revolutionary spirit of rock and roll. We feared that the music which had given us sustenance was i...”
“I discovered the miracle that all things that sound are music, including the dishes and silverware in the dishwasher, as long as they fulfill the illusion of showing us where life is heading.”
“I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.”
“It might sound chauvinistic, but there is a sad reality in rock music: Bands who depend on support from females inevitably crash and burn.”
“When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano. ”
