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“People usually complain that music is so ambiguous, and what they are supposed to think when they hear it is so unclear, while words are understood by everyone. But for me it is exactly the opposit...”
“The chef who cooks without a song on his lips cannot hope to infuse the right carefree improvisatory note into his art.”
“I just got into the Beatles a couple of years ago, you know, I like it.”
“Our musicians in residence carry this belief into the classroom. They don't think of children's self-esteem as so fragile that it will be shattered by the suggestion that the child guessed wrong or...”
“She wasn't actually speaking to me, she was singing a kind of lullaby of talk. But, eventually, the music stopped. ”
“To grow a melody?" "You can't grow a melody on purpose, she said, and slyly added, you have to plant an accidental.”
“Pianos, unlike people, sing when you give them your every growl. They know how to dive into the pit of your stomach and harmonize with your roars when youve split yourself open. And when they see y...”
“There is simply no limit to the tyrannical snobbery that otherwise decent people can descend into when it comes to music.”
“It's asking for trouble to listen to music alone.”
“This ain't the heartbreak hotel even though I know it well.Those no shows should you tell in the way you hold yourself.Don't you fret should you get another cancellation, give me a chance and I'll ...”
“A good song should life your heart, warm the soul and make you feel good.”
“Do you realize why is it I'm so driven to operate within the Establishment? It's vengeance. 'Hope I die before I get old' is something I still have to live with, but not for the reason many people ...”
“There was the noise itself, which he thought of vaguely as the noise of classical music, sameish and rhetorical, full of feelings people surely never had”
“Cayse you left a jagged hole.And I can' stand it any more.”
“One Life, with each other, Sisters, Brothers...”
“I will fucking kill you and anyone else who gets in the way of me and my tunes.”
“I was captured by music at a really early age. I was really captured by it. Everything about it. It was my mother It was my father It was my play thing. It was my toy. It was the best thing in my l...”
“There is no pattern the human mind can devise that does not exist already within the bounds of nature...Everything we do, see, write, notate, all are an echo of the deep seams of the universe. Musi...”
“if the main reason we listen to music in the first place is to hear passion expressed- as i've believed all my life-then what good is this music going to prove to be? what does that say about us? w...”
“It was like being at an Arabian hoedown with a band of psychedelic hillbillies (p. 171).”
