"Music can change the world."
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"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
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"You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved."
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"We don't play to be seen. I'm addicted to music, not audiences."
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"Put all your soul into it, play the way you feel!"
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"Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it."
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"The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar."
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"We can mention only one point (which experience confirms), namely, that next to the Word of God, music deserves the highest praise. No greater commendation than this can be found — at least not by us. After all, the gift of language combined with the gift of song was only given to man to let him know that he should praise God with both word and music, namely, by proclaiming [the Word of God] through music."
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"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats."
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"I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to."
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"If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die."
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"What will be the judgment a century hence concerning the lorded works of our favorite composers today? Inasmuch as nearly everything is subject to the changes of time, and - more's the pity- the fashions of time, only that which is good and true will endure like a rock and no wanton hand will ever venture to defile it. Then, let every man do that which is right, strive with all his might towards the goal which can never be obtained, develop to the last breath the gifts with which the gracious Creator has endowed him, and never cease to learn. For life is short, art eternal."
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"A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't."
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"Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art."
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"The only thing better than singing is more singing."
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"Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul"
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"Music expresses that which cannot be put into words."
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"I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer."
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"Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you."
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"The duty of youth is to challenge corruption."
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