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“Tell me what you listen to, and I'll tell you who you are.”
“It's just nice, I guess. Knowing that someone else can put into words what I feel. That there are people who have been through things worse than I have, and they come out on the other side okay. No...”
“Give me a shot to rememberAnd you can take all the pain away from meA kiss and I will surrenderThe sharpest lives are the deadliest to leadA light to burn all the empiresSo bright the sun is ashame...”
“The pause makes you think the song will end. And then the song isn't really over, so you're relieved. But then the song does actually end, because every song ends, obviously, and THAT. TIME. THE. E...”
“Music is a proud, temperamental mistress. Give her the time and attention she deserves, and she is yours. Slight her and there will come a day when you call and she will not answer. So I began slee...”
“People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.”
“Music can change the world because it can change people.”
“I see my life in terms of music.”
“I believe that a person's taste in music tells you a lot about them. In some cases, it tells you everything you need to know.”
“Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.”
“Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of unrest to a world of peace, and see reality in a new way, as...”
“I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course.”
“It is said by the Eldar that in water there lives yet the echo of the Music of the Ainur more than in any substance that is in this Earth; and many of the Children of Ilvatar hearken still unsated ...”
“Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.”
“I love the way music inside a car makes you feel invisible; if you play the stereo at max volume, it's almost like the other people can't see into your vehicle. It tints your windows, somehow.”
“If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand...... But until we find this new way of speaking, until we can find a ...”
“When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.”
“Softly, deftly, music shall caress you. Hear it, feel it, Secretly possess you.”
“...sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the same...”
“If I cannot fly, let me sing.”