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“Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician.”
“When you can write music that endures, bravo. Until then, keep quiet and study the work of those who can.”
“I am telling you what I knowwords have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them.”
“Music is more powerful than reason in the soul. That is also why Plato made music the very first step in his long educational curriculum: good music was to create the harmony of soul that would be ...”
“I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better.”
“The music lets me see the story but the story doesn't let me write the words.”
“And my experience in the music scene had shown me that there were places for places in the world where misfits were welcome.”
“There's no equivalent to Mozart in writing.”
“Music is my higher power”
“A great song should lift your heart, warm the soul and make you feel good.”
“Sing you a song and steal your soul.”
“If we can feel that it is not our voice, not our fingers, but some reality deep inside our heart which is expressing itself, then we will know that it is the souls music.”
“Singing is the sound of the soul.”
“Yesterday night gave birthTo a song, spirited and sprightly;It made my soul sparkle too,And since then, I have been oh so lively!”
“But singing isnt just about belting it out, is it? Its not just who has the most wobble or the highest note, no, its about phrasing, and being delicate, and getting just the right feeling from a so...”
“The world has kissed my Soul with its pain, asking for its return in Songs.”
“It was entirely possible that one song could destroy your life. Yes, musical doom could fall on a lone human form and crush it like a bug. The song, that song, was sent from somewhere else to find ...”
“Music lifts the soul to spiritual realms.”
“I am a confused Musician who got sidetracked into this goddamn Word business for so long that I never got back to music - except maybe when I find myself oddly alone in a quiet room with only a typ...”
“Words are music to the ears, alone or together, with or without melody.”
