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“Music is power, literally. You hear a certain note, or a rhythm that really clicks, and boom! Youve got a song. Maybe only in your head. But when youve got the idea, the song flows out through your...”
“He turned around to see the bass drum popping and the horn sections pointing their instruments to the balconies and sending glorious notes to the rooftops.”
“He turned the music up loud. So what if it would deafen him? It made him happy. Like it had so many times before.”
“He doesn't comment on any of the music I play: Sonny Rollins followed by AC/DC followed by the Broadway score from My Fair Lady.”
“You can forget me now because I was never welcome.”
“...there is a void in my guts which can only be filled by songs.”
“Repetition draws us into music, and repetition draws music into us.”
“I know you ain't a drug but you get me so high...”
“All people are musicians" Wit countered. "The question is whether or not they share their songs.”
“I like music,' she said slowly, 'because when I hear it, I...I lose myself within myself if that makes any sense. I become empty and full all at once.”
“That's the funny thing about music. Part of the magic, I quess. Sometimes it replenishes me, like I'm feeding off its energy and it fills me. And other times, it pulls at my pain, weaves its way th...”
“For he had never heard anything like it--did not know such music existed in the world--and it was hard to believe that a man he knew could play it with his own two hands. There were parts of it lik...”
“Not for the first time, it occurred to me that sorrow could be purified into song the same way a piece of coal is purified into a diamond.”
“Look deeply into life, and study it as diligently as the other arts and sciences.”
“the study of jurisprudence, by which I must earn my bread, has so withered and frozen the flowers of my fancy that they will never again seek the light. (To his Mother, November 11, 1829)”
“Music is poetry in motion.”
“Creativity without commercialism will result in unseen masterpieces by unknown painters.”
“Where does music go when its not playing?she asked herself. And disarmed she would answer: May they make a harp out of my nerves when I die.”
“I decided that in order to become a big famous rock star, I would need to write my very own songs instead of wasting my time learning other peoples music too much. It may act as an obstruction in d...”
“Music is faithful”
