"Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun."
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"The music that can deepest reach and cure all ill is cordial speech."
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"Music causes us to think eloquently."
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"Music is nothing separate from me. It is me... You'd have to remove the music surgically."
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"Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts."
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"One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music."
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"You couldn't not like someone who liked the guitar."
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"If you must write prose or poems, the words you use should be your own. Don't plagiarize or take 'on loan'. There's always someone, somewhere, with a big nose, who knows, who'll trip you up and laugh when you fall."
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"I'm really happy I'm me because if I wasn't I'd be scared. If you want that Number One spot you need to listen to my album and try to beat it."
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"There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem."
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"The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary"
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"It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted."
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"A young man, just beginning the study of musical composition, once went to Mozart and asked him the formula for developing the theme of a symphony. Mozart suggested that a symphony was rather an ambitious project for a beginner: perhaps the young man might better try his hand at something simpler first. "But you were writing symphonies when you were my age." the student protested. "Yes, but I didn't have to ask how.""
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"A thrumming of piano-strings beyond the gardens and through the elms. At length the melody steals into my being. I know not when it began to occupy me. By some fortunate coincidence of thought or circumstance I am attuned to the universe, I am fitted to hear, my being moves in a sphere of melody, my fancy and imagination are excited to an inconceivable degree. This is no longer the dull earth on which I stood."
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"Of the whole bunch of guys who play hollow body guitar, I think Herb Ellis has the most drive"
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"How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy."
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"For the moment, the jazz is playing; there is no melody, just notes, a myriad tiny tremors. The notes know no rest, an inflexibleorder gives birth to them then destroys them, without ever leaving them the chance to recuperate and exist for themselves.... I would like to hole them back, but I know that, if I succeeded in stooping one, there would only remain in may hand a corrupt and languishing sound. I must accept their death; I must even want that death: I know of few more bitter or intense impressions."
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"I dig Strauss and Wagner, those cats are good..."
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".. the Grand Ole Opry used to come on, and I used to watch that. They used to have some pretty heavy cats, heavy guitar players"
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"Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen to it, we find it fascinating."
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