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“What's even worse than a flute? - Two flutes!”
“To him the stars seemed like so many musical notes affixed to the sky, just waiting for somebody to unfasten them. Someday the sky would be emptied, but by then the earth would be a constellation o...”
“The Universe is making music all the time.”
“Music has power to create a universe or to destroy a civilization.”
“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...”
“The new kind of music seems to create not from the heart but from the head. Its composers think rather than feel. They have not the capacity to make their works exalt - they meditate, protest, anal...”
“All I can do is read a book to stay awake, and it rips my life away, but it's a great escape.”
“For the music to be over so soon. For the music to be over when it had just begun. That was really sad.”
“Rehearsals and practice times by myself are like these little islands of 'Okay' in a vast sea of 'Holy Crap!”
“You know what punk is? a bunch of no-talent guys who really, really want to be in a band. Nobody reads music, nobody plays the mandolin, and you're too dumb to write songs about mythology or Middle...”
“There must be some kind of way out of here,' said the joker to the thief...”
“The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected. The commonplace person begins to play, and shoots into the e...”
“I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am...”
“I was about 12 years old and I was sitting watching the television and it was some kind of talent show, you know, and on marches this monkey, this ape, in a pair of red-checked trousers with a litt...”
“There's that thing that can happen to you when you meet somebody and you don't consider them extraordinary at all and then they do something like play the cello or write amazing poetry or sing and ...”
“The music never leaves. Once you have it, you can't lose it.”
“I'm looking at you through the glassDon't know how much time has pastOh God it feels like foreverBut no one tells that forever feels like homeSitting all alone in your head”
“I love music. For me, music is morning coffee. It's mood medicine. It's pure magic. A good song is like a good meal-I just want to inhale it and then share a bite with someone else.”
“Words cannot always do the work we need them to. Music is there for when words fail us.”
“Music is the art of thinking with sounds.”
