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“Music, that is the science or the sense of proper modulation, is likewise given by God's generosity to mortals having rational souls in order to lead them to higher things.”
“Music is made for relax, let's don't move it... let's be clever and left it like this, shall we?”
“Music does not have a race or a disposition! ... Every instrument has a voice that contributes. Music is a universal language...Music surpasses all distinctions between people.”
“I [Music] was born in the open air, in the breaks of waves and the whistling of sandstorms, the hoots of owls and the cackles of tui birds. I travel in echoes. I ride the breeze. I was forged in na...”
“A fresh bottle of Jack waited on the end table, but for the first time in weeks I didnt feel the need to pour a nightcap. The music was better.”
“All the music I write is a search for myself.”
“I didn't say much; my head was still ringing with the music, and I didn't want it to fade. I kept thinking back to it, the way that Will's friend had been so lost in what he was playing. I hadn't r...”
“I am a man ruled by music- I live, die, fight and survive for it.”
“What is music? What does it do to us? And why does it do to us what it does? People say that music has an uplifting effect on the soul: what rot! It isnt true. Its true that it has an effect, it ha...”
“The resulting amalgam - an exotic mixture of European, Caribbean, African, and American elements - made Louisiana into perhaps the most seething ethnic melting pot that the nineteenth century world...”
“Driving home I switch on the radio and one of those old Motown voices comes on and reaches my heart.”
“A man who hates music can't be trusted.”
“music was the only beautiful thing he owned”
“And when one song stops playing write the one that will save your life.”
“Music is either sacred or profane. What is sacred accords completely with its nobility, and this is where music most immediately influences life; such influence remains unchanged at all times and i...”
“I am eating this noise like mouthfuls of freezing, glittering fog. I am filling with it. I am using it as energy. Because what you are, as a teenager, is a small, silver, empty rocket. And you use ...”
“I sing about life. I am happy, but life is sad.”
“Music felt married to place, and the notion of "somewhere" predated the Internet's seeming invention of "everywhere" (which often ends up feeling like "nowhere").”
“Repetition sometimes works in poetry, but rarely in prose. The musical provocateur John Cage once wrote a lecture in which a single page was repeated fourteen times, with the refrain "If anybody is...”
“Sometimes guitar riffs get repeated over and over ("vamping," in the lingo of musicians), but generally there is a soloist proving variation that runs above that background, lest the song sound mon...”
