Geezer Butler
Musician
"If you are a pop band, don't say you're a metal band. Poison and Warrant were about as metal as the Backstreet Boys."
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Martin Luther
Theologian
"I have no use for cranks who despise music, because it is a gift of God. Music drives away the Devil and makes people joyful; they forget thereby all wrath, unchastity, arrogance, and the like. Next after theology, I give to music the highest place and the greatest honor."
Bob Marley
Musician, Singer-Songwriter
"Judge not, before you judge yourself. Judge not, if you're not ready for judgment. The Road of life is rocky and you may stumble too, so while you talk about me, someone else is judging you."
Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher, Writer
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."
Bob Marley
Musician, Singer-Songwriter
"One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain."
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"Live for yourself and you will live in vain; Live for others, and you will live again."
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"Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!"
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"You need music, I don't know why. It's probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual. We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it."
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"Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you."
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"The key to longevity is to learn every aspect of music that you can."
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"How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express it"
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"Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents."
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"Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect -and I don't live to be- but before you start pointing fingers... make sure you hands are clean!"
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"None but ourselves can free our minds."
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"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."
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"Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine."
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"I'm only myself when I have a guitar in my hands."
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"The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul."
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"Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking."
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"To play without passion is inexcusable!"
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"Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold."
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"Technically, I'm not a guitar player, all I play is truth and emotion."
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"As long as we live there is never enough singing."
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"Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music."
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"Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality."
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