"Barney Kessel is definitely the best guitar player in this world, or any other world."
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"Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world."
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"Listen to music religiously, as if it were the last strain you might hear."
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"... We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us - certainly more satisfying, because it doesn't restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style. The result, I think, is pretty interesting ... we don't expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top. As long as we can play, we'll play, regardless of what it's for, who it's for or anything. It's fun for us - that's the important thing."
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"When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do."
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"I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us."
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"There are no wrong notes."
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"No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious & charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful."
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"It's the music that kept us all intact, kept us from going crazy."
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"Michael Bloomfield came in after rock n roll started, and he was a great guitarist. He idolized me - I know that. What else can I say ? he was a young, excitable man. To him, drugs were plentiful, and that was no good. I talked to him like he was a son of mine. He was a great and he was gonna be greater. But he was part of the "in-crowd" and so he never got there"
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"There's nothing like the eureka moment of knocking off a song that didn't exist before - I won't compare it to sex, but it lasts longer."
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"Sing again, with your dear voice revealing. A tone Of some world far from ours, where music and moonlight and feeling are one."
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"I was unfashionable before anyone knew who I was."
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"Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness."
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"Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead."
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"I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out."
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"The greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out."
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"I can play, and I know it; I'm not looking for any pats on the back. I don't have to be endorsed by anybody. I make enough to live and eat, and I'm happy with my music-and that's all I need."
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"A song is anything that can walk by itself."
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"And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking."
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