"Ignore all hatred and criticism. Live for what you create, and die protecting it."
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"Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without."
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"Music is the universal language of mankind."
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"I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order."
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"The Beach Boys are not a superstar group. The music is the superstar of the group."
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"You are the music while the music lasts."
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"You know what music is - a harmonic connection between all living beings."
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"Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words."
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"The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's."
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"I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive."
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"Music is a safe kind of high."
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"I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed."
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"I couldn't live without my music, man. Or me mum."
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"For me, music and life are all about style."
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"Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering."
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"The reason we're successful, darling? My overall charisma, of course."
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"Music fills the infinite between two souls. This has been muffled by the mist of our daily habits."
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"A prophet is not without honor except in his own country among his own people."
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"The thing that influenced me most was the way Tommy played his trombone. It was my idea to make my voice work in the same way as a trombone or violin-not sounding like them, but "playing" the voice like those instrumentalists."
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"The most stupendous miracle in all music."
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