"Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to the mind and heart of all people."
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"A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live."
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"Music can change the world because it can change people."
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"We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion."
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"Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing."
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"When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest."
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"He who sings frightens away his ills."
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"My father's rich, my momma's good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I've never suffered and don't intend to suffer."
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"A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it."
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"I didn't have nothin' going for me... school, home... until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything."
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"It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor."
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"Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory."
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"There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music."
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"music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts."
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"Music fills the infinite between two souls."
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"The world thinks that music is a commercial commodity. I'm glad that is not my code."
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"And I'll dance with you in Vienna, I'll be wearing a river's disguise. The hyacinth wild on my shoulder my mouth on the dew of your thighs. And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook, with the photographs there and the moss. And I'll yield to the flood of your beauty, my cheap violin and my cross."
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"The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial."
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"Always look ahead, but never look back."
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"Music is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make."
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