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“To me, making a tape is like writing a letter – there's a lot of erasing and rethinking and starting again, and I wanted it to be a good one.”
“...A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.”
“Cold,cold water,surrounds me now,and all I've got is your hand.”
“One thing he discovered with a great deal of astonishment was that music held for him more then just pleasure. There was meat to it. The grouping of sounds, their forms in the air as they rang out ...”
“He had always wanted to write music, and he could give no other identity to the thing he sought. If you want to know what it is, he told himself, listen to the first phrases of Tchaikovsky’s First ...”
“They all trying to say something with music that you can't say with plain talk. There ain't really no words for love or pain. And the way I see it, only fools go around trying to talk their love or...”
“For the music to be over so soon. For the music to be over when it had just begun. That was really sad.”
“The music never leaves. Once you have it, you can't lose it.”
“Has the industry done to music what McDonald’s has done to eating?”
“Strange how potent cheap music is.”
“I liked AC/DC," Lee said. "If you were going to shoot someone, you'd really want to do it while you were listening to them.""What about the Beatles? Did you feel like shooting anyone listening to t...”
“Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.”
“We imagined ourselves as the Sons of Liberty with a mission to preserve, protect, and project the revolutionary spirit of rock and roll. We feared that the music which had given us sustenance was i...”
“I discovered the miracle that all things that sound are music, including the dishes and silverware in the dishwasher, as long as they fulfill the illusion of showing us where life is heading.”
“There are millions of chords. There are millions of numbers. And everyone forgets the one that is a zero. But without the zero, numbers are just arithmetic. Without the empty chord, music is just n...”
“After dinner Natasha went to the clavichord, at Prince Andrey's request, and began singing. Prince Andrey stood at the window, talking to the ladies, and listened to her. In the middle of a phrase,...”
“A bit of the vagueness of music stops you going completely mad, I imagine.”
“One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves and blizzards will be at one's throat all the sooner.”
“This is one of my favorite things about the Underground: the crashing of the cymbals, the screeching guitar riffs, music that moves into the blood and makes you feel hot and wild and alive.”
“A piece of music is an experience to be taken by itself.”
