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“In the hall itself the din of the music - for this is the real way to play a jukebox and what it was originally for - was so tremendous that it shattered Dean and Stan and me for a moment in the re...”
“Music is everything and nothing. It is useless and no limit can be set on its use. Music takes me to places of illimitable sensual and insensate joy, accessing points of ecstasy that no angelic lov...”
“One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves and blizzards will be at one's throat all the sooner.”
“This is one of my favorite things about the Underground: the crashing of the cymbals, the screeching guitar riffs, music that moves into the blood and makes you feel hot and wild and alive.”
“Without music life would B flat”
“Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.”
“Put some muscle into it! Channel your inner Trent Reznor!”
“Some girls are bigger than others.”
“Play always as if in the presence of a master.”
“The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.”
“Butterflies, butterfliesThey were meant to flyYou and i, you and iWe were colours in the sky”
“A piece of music is an experience to be taken by itself.”
“I won't look back to regret yesterday, we're not handed tomorrow so I'll live for today”
“Music is what I have to do, I only answer the questions so that I can do it.”
“Music is love.”
“Music without the ebb and flow would be like "watching a film with only good guys in it." -attrib Frank Zappa”
“The connection being that in my head all language began in song and that the best stories inevitably reutrn to song, to a state of rapture. For years, I had assumed that throwing beautiful words at...”
“Jazz will endure as long as people hear it through their feet instead of their brains ”
“A kiss is a course of procedure cunningly devised, for the mutual stopage of speech at a moment when words are superfluous.”
“It's not enough just to do those things anymore; what you must do instead if you want success on any large scale is either figure out a way of getting yourself associated in the audience's mind wit...”