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Music without the ebb and flow would be like "watching a film with only good guys in it." -attrib Fr...

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John PowellHow Music Works: The Science and Psychology of Beautiful Sounds

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disor...

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The art of music is good, for the reason, among others, that it produces pleasure; but what proof is...

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Mozart's music gives us permission to live.

I have no objection to instruments of music in our worship, provided they are neither seen nor heard...

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I was never that into the movies. Never. Even as a youngster. I became interested in movie music onl...

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I always wrote music for my friends, but my focus was on playing piano. I didn't think I'd be quite ...

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Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.

Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the who...

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Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.

Music is still part of my life, but I hate the idea of people coming to see me play the guitar becau...

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I am very proud of the fact that 20 years [sic] on people tell me they became a vegetarian as a resu...

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I design all of my costumes. I like to go out there and feel like I have contributed to every part o...

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Music is fun, but I'm an ice skater. I may sing songs and do shows, make movies and other things... ...

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We are at a crossroads in the music business: with the rise of the internet, the world we live in ha...

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It's really cool to see glowsticks at the show, to see dance music culture infiltrating and becoming...

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When I listen to music, I don't want to hear about flowers. I like death and destruction.

If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is noth...

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Jonathan Safran FoerEverything Is Illuminated

Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and...

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Jonathan Safran FoerExtremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Songs are as sad as the listener.

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Jonathan Safran FoerExtremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Will you take me as I am? Strung out on another man...California, I'm comin' home.

you dont know what you got till its gone

In search of love and music my whole life has beenIlluminationCorruptionAnd diving, diving, diving, ...

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We are stardustBillion-year old carbonAnd we've got to get ourselves back to the garden

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Joni MitchellJoni Mitchell: The Complete Poems and Lyrics

I've written poetry since I was in the first grade, and it wasn't until I was a little bit older tha...

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There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says,...

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Music the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have below.

All of heaven we have below.

This mournful and restless sound was a fit accompaniment to my meditations.

I tell you before God, and as an honest man, your son (W A Mozart)is the greatest composer known to ...

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I tell you before God, and as an honest man, your son is the greatest composer known to me by person...

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Don't give up. It's just the weight of the world.

No matter who we are, no matter what our circumstances, our feelings and emotions are universal. And...

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Music is stored in our long-term memory. When we learn something through music, we tend to remember ...

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I've got a theory, it could be bunnies...I've got a theor-Bunnies aren't just cute like everybody su...

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The creative act amazes me. Whether it's poetry, whether it's music, it's an amazing process, and it...

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I wanted to see everything. It was around the time I acquired language, or even before that time, wh...

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What could be put up against the noise of time? Only that music which is inside ourselves - the musi...

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Music — good music, great music — had a hard, irreducible purity to it. It might be bitter and despa...

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Music escapes from words: that is its purpose, and its majesty.

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Julian BarnesThe Noise of Time

From the beginning, I've always had a knack for catchy melodies. But I went through a period when I ...

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I was lucky enough to be the lady that was asked to be Maria in the Sound Of Music, and that film wa...

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When I did 'The Sound of Music' and 'Mary Poppins' and 'The Americanization of Emily,' all three wer...

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You’ve got that smile,That only heaven can make.I pray to God everyday,That you keep that smile.Yeah...

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Teen pop will never die as long as there are teens and popular music. It just takes a different head...

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Shoot for the stars, so if you fall you land on a cloud.

He has heard, and causes those with ears to hear, even today, what we shall not see until the end of...

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No matter what is happening in life or in the world - war, natural disaster, poor health, pain, the ...

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heaven and earth, nature and man, comedy and tragedy, … the Virgin Mary and the demons...Mozart simp...

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Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.

The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.

Music gives color to the air of the moment.

For me, Chanel is like music. There are certain notes and you have to make another tune with them

The chanting went on, the musicians giving in to the rhythm of their own being, finding healing in t...

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And when they encounter works of art which show that using new media can lead to new experiences and...

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Many roads to take some to joy some to heart ache

If we could only turn back time

I think it's almost a law of nature that there are only certain things that hit an emotive space, an...

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The sound of the king's music made Despereaux's soul grow large and light inside of him.

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Kate DiCamilloThe Tale of Despereaux

I'm kind of a good girl - and I'm not. I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, ...

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I don't care what people say about my relationship I don't care what they say about my boobs. People...

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Maybe the reason why all the doors are closed so you could open one that leads you to the perfect ro...

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Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You ...

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Classic of '43. Don't knock it. A Vintage year.

Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in th...

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Keith RichardsAccording to the Rolling Stones

If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet.

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Keith RichardsKeith Richards: In His Own Words

There's something beautifully friendly and elevating about a bunch of guys playing music together. T...

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If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll o...

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You see, there's some blues for folks ain't never had a thing, and that's a sad blues ... but the sa...

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You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in ...

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Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.

My whole thing is just to put out positive messages in the music, give people something that can cha...

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Once I accomplish one thing and I'm satisfied, I try something else. I may be 50 and doing something...

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I see it as more of a teenage activity than, you know, she's only 11, but you know, I think it's gre...

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I grew up in a utopia, I did. California when I was a child was a child's paradise, I was healthy, w...

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In high school I had a boyfriend who was super into rap, so I was into Too $hort and Wu-Tang for a l...

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Kids don't care about rock and roll as much as they used to, as the other generations have. It's alr...

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Dylan's relationship with Johnny Cash was the biggest influence on Nashville in my lifetime - they o...

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Music is energy. A mood, atmosphere. Feeling.

Words suck. I mean, every thing has been said. I can't remember the last real interesting conversati...

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I decided that in order to become a big famous rock star, I would need to write my very own songs in...

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Do your own thing. Others own their own thing. If you copy too much, you'll find yourself in late ni...

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And I do, god, how I do love playing live, it's the most primal form of energy release you can share...

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I would love to be erased from our association with Pearl Jam or the Nymphs and other first time off...

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Being brave means that knowing when you fail, you won't fail forever.

Well my music was different in high school; I was singing about love—you know, things I don't care a...

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Where I come from it was really unheard of to be at a party and someone says, 'What kind of music do...

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I'm already crazy. I'm a fearless person. I think it creeps up on you. I don't think it can be stopp...

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Don't be a drag.Just be a queen.

My friends joke that I’m dead until I get onstage. I’m dead right now as you’re speaking to me.

I'd wear any of my private attire for the world to see. But I would rather have an open flesh wound ...

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My new album that I'm creating, which is finished pretty much, was written with this new instinctual...

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I had a boyfriend who told me I’d never succeed, never be nominated for a Grammy, never have a hit s...

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So many will try to destroy me. So many, over and over, coming in periods of greatness. But in this ...

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We are not just Art for Michelangelo to carve, he can't rewrite the agro of my furied heart- Lady Ga...

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