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"Music is the melody whose text is the world."
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"Is it not strange, that sheep's guts should hale souls out of men's bodies!"
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"I think sometimes could I only have music on my own terms, could I live in a great city, and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves, that were a bath and a medicine."
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"Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite."
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"For me, songwriting is something that I have to do ritually. I don't just wait for inspiration; I try to write a little bit every day."
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"I'm now a legend, whether I want to be or not."
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"One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It's like being the piano player in a whorehouse; you don't have any control over the action going on upstairs."
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"I am a musician, but I'm another type of musician."
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"When I am silent, I fall into the place where everything is music."
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"The object of music is a Sound. The end; to delight, and move various Affections in us."
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"I'm able to laugh now, because I've gone through a lot of mental and physical therapy to heal over the years, my music's been wonderful for me. But I was a shell of my former self at one point. I was not myself. To be fair, I was about 19, so ... I went to Catholic school and all this crazy stuff happened, and I was going, 'Oh, is this just the way adults are?' I was very naive."
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"Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free."
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"If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation."
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"I just do what I do. I like to make music"
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"I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500."
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"Regarding jam sessions: Jazz musicians are the only workers I can think of who are willing to put in a full shift for pay and then go somewhere else and continue to work for free."
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"We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective safe taste of the Top 40, just looking for a little something we can call our own. But when we find it and jam the radio to hear it again it isn't just ours -- it is a link to thousands of others who are sharing it with us. As a matter of a single song this might mean very little; as culture, as a way of life, you can't beat it."
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"I got to where I couldn't listen to country radio. Country music is supposed to have steel and fiddle. When I hear country music, it should be country."
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"In music the passions enjoy themselves."
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