"I am never merry when I hear sweet music."
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"The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on."
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"The only one who's got enough of me to break my heart."
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"Music is the poor man's Parnassus."
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"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music."
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"When I was a little kid, I took tap and ballet. I've always loved to dance. I'm a rhythm machine."
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"Remember the Bob Dylan rule: it's not just a record, it's a movement."
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"We are as the flute, and the music in us is from thee; we are as the mountain and the echo in us is from thee."
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"I'm telling you a lie in a vicious effort that you will repeat my lie over and over until it becomes true"
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"I'd wear any of my private attire for the world to see. But I would rather have an open flesh wound than ever wear a band aid in public."
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"All this role model bullshit; you don't have any extra responsibilities because you made some good songs! Your only responsibility is to make good songs."
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"Ah, music," he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic far beyond all we do here! And now, bedtime. Off you trot!"
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"The iPod completely changed the way people approach music."
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"Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays."
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"We lived on a farm in the English countryside, where we wrote a lot of our music. You really were treated like an artist during those days-not like product, which is now the mode."
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"When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation."
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"Music has to breathe and sweat. You have to play it live."
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"We worked the medley on side two of "Abbey Road" out carefully in advance. All of those mini songs were partly completed tunes; some were written while we were in India a year before. So there was just a bit of chorus here and a verse there. We welded them all together into a routine."
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"Music is essentially useless, as is life."
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"Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it."
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