"The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet."
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"I thought Eric Clapton was good. He still is. Not only is he good - he's rock's #1 guitarist, and he plays blues better than most of us"
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"The image is one thing and the human being is another...it's very hard to live up to an image."
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"In this day and time you can't even get sick; you are strung-out! Well by God, I'll tell you something, friend: I have never been strung-out in my life, except on music!"
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"Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing."
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"I can play all I know in eight bars."
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"Man, there's no boundary line to art!"
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"Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason."
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"In music I feel most deeply the passing of things."
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"R&B is not a fad; it's the truth."
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"Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself."
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"Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going."
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"Whatever else has been said about me personally is unimportant. When I sing, I believe. I'm honest."
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"Music, of all the arts, stands in a special region, unlit by any star but its own, and utterly without meaning ... except its own."
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"O Music! language of the soul, Of love, of God to man; Bright beam from heaven thrilling, That lightens sorrow's weight."
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"Time to write and sing, to laugh, to listen, to discover, to cry, to love music."
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"Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune."
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"It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music."
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"What I'm dealing with is so vast and great that it can't be called the truth. It's above the truth."
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"Let the music diffuse all the tension."
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