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“I don't like my language watered down, I don't like my edges rounded off.”
“And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares, that infest the day,Shall fold their tents like the Arabs,and silently steal away.”
“It's like if the music is loud enough I won't be able to listen to my own thoughts. ”
“Words make you think. Music makes you feel. A song makes you feel a thought.”
“Music isn't just a pleasure, a transient satisfaction. It's a need, a deep hunger; and when the music is right, it's joy. Love. A foretaste of heaven. A comfort in grief. Is it too much to think th...”
“If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.”
“There are all kinds of mix tapes. there is always a reason to make one.”
“There was something about the music on that tape. It felt different. Like, it set her lungs and her stomach on edge. There was something exciting about it, and something nervous. It made Eleanor fe...”
“Shoot for the stars, so if you fall you land on a cloud.”
“I was in the winter of my life- and the men I met along the road were my only summer. At night I fell sleep with vision of myself dancing and laughing and crying with them. Three year down the line...”
“Music? Music is life! Its physical emotion - you can touch it! Its neon ecto-energy sucked out of spirits and switched into sound waves for your ears to swallow. Are you telling me, what, that its ...”
“How is it that music can, without words, evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?”
“A good compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do. You've got to kick off with a corker, to hold the attention (I started with 'Got To Get You Off My Mind', but then realised that she might ...”
“I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.”
“The artist must forget the audience, forget the critics, forget the technique, forget everything but love for the music.Then, the music speaks through the performance,and the performer and the list...”
“We get a little further from perfection, each year on the road,I guess that's what they call character,I guess that's just the way it goes,better to be dusty than polished,like some store window ma...”
“Can't you see that it's just raining?There ain't no need to go outside.”
“You can live with me in this house I've built out of writers blocks.”
“Then I felt something inside me break and music began to pour out into the quiet. My fingers danced; intricate and quick they spun something gossamer and tremulous into the circle of light our fire...”
“In music the passions enjoy themselves.”
