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“After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not my own. Music always seems to me to produce that effect. It cre...”
“You have to turn it up so that your chest shakes and the drums get in between your ribs like a heartbeat and the bass goes up your spine and fizzles your brain and all you can do is dance or spin i...”
“Don't believe everything you hear: Real eyes, Realize, Real lies”
“Music is the soundtrack of our lives.”
“I try to live without you,everytime I do I feel dead.”
“Carolina beach music," Dupree said, coming up on the porch. "The holiest sound on earth.”
“Know I don't hate youDon't wanna fight youKnow I'll always love youBut right now I just don't like youCause you took this too far”
“There is in souls a sympathy with sounds:And as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleasedWith melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave;Some chord in unison with what we hearIs touch'd within us, and t...”
“Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.”
“Burn down the discoHang the blessed D.J.Because the music that they constantly playIt says nothing to me about my life”
“Music, of all the arts, stands in a special region, unlit by any star but its own, and utterly without meaning ... except its own.”
“A middle-aged woman who looked like someone's cleaning lady, a shrieking adolescent lunatic and a talkshow host with an orange face... It didn't add up. Suicide wasn't invented for people like this...”
“It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty o...”
“The more you love music, the more music you love.”
“To remember love after long sleep; to turn again to poetry after a year in the market place, or to youth after resignation to drowsy and stiffening age; to remember what once you thought life could...”
“We are not here to do what has already been done.”
“The silence gets us nowhere, nowhere way to fast”
“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.”
“It's music rage, which is like road rage, only more righteous. When you get road rage, a tiny part of you knows you're being a jerk, but when you get music rage, you're carrying out the will of God...”
“I leave behind this hurricane of f***ing lies”
