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"I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water."
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"People are like music, some speak the truth and others are just noise."
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"I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side. I stand for God's side."
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"Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano."
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"Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul."
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"Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one."
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"I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes."
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"I stole everything I ever heard, but mostly I stole from the horns."
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"Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life."
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"Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play."
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"Music to me is like breathing. I don't get tired of breathing, I don't get tired of music."
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"People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent."
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"There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot."
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"Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken."
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"The landscape affects the human psyche - the soul, the body and the innermost contemplations - like music. Every time you feel nature deeper you resonate better with her, finding new elements of balance and freedom."
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"I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things."
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"I know I'm no glamour girl, and it's not easy for me to get up in front of a crowd of people. It used to bother me a lot, but now I've got it figured out that God gave me this talent to use, so I just stand there and sing."
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"I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world."
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"Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?"
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