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Her silent singing wrapped around the story she was telling herself, which she extended further ever...

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If we want to fight people in the world, we should fight them with pillows - pillows stuffed with fo...

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What that song? I ast. Sound low down dirty to me. Like what the preacher tells you its sin to hear....

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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Salsa, classic rock, soul music, jazz... all of that was a part of my education in making hip-hop mu...

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Music is another planet.

There is a music of the universes in every heart.

Be the music of your soul. Don't be a pawn in someone else's game.

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Amit RayNonviolence: The Transforming Power

Love is the sweetest melody of the soul and anything can be catalyst for that.

In this vast cosmic orchestra, peace is the music of every heart. Our glory lies in understanding, l...

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Peace is the music of every soul. Our glory lies in understanding, listening and honoring that music

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Amit RayWalking the Path of Compassion

I don't think I knew what depression was. I knew I felt funny sometimes and I was different. I think...

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I couldn't resist him, his eyes were like yours, his hair was exactly the shade of brown.He's just n...

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Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body’s breath, and the stri...

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I've been working at performing for five years now. I've been working in Australia and Spain and Eng...

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And it was sad music fit to make you cut your throat.

I've been trying to learn how to not be so conflicted about things like my own anger. I've always ha...

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I don't like my language watered down, I don't like my edges rounded off.

Pop stardom is not very compelling. I'm much more interested in a relationship between performer and...

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I am not an angry girlBut it seems like I’ve got everyone fooledEvery time I say something they find...

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Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll women include anger in their vocabulary and sudde...

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We get a little further from perfection, each year on the road,I guess that's what they call charact...

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Art is why I get up in the morning, but my definition ends there. You know, it doesn't seem fair tha...

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Ani DiFrancoAni Difranco: The Complete Lyrics

I think a lot of times our culture has an attitude toward art and the production of art that separat...

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If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up.

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Anna AkhmatovaThe Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

And in the depths of music, I didn’t find the answer,And again there was silence, and again the ghos...

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Anna AkhmatovaThe Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

The whole beauty of music is that it goes where your words won't let you.

In paintings, music, poetry, architecture, we feel the elusive energy that moves through us and the ...

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Anne LamottHelp Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers

Then the singing enveloped me. It was furry and resonant, coming from everyone's very heart. There w...

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Anne LamottTraveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side.

The music as always had a dark sweet luster, but it was more than ever like an endless beginning-a t...

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I've lived all these years among those who create nothing and change nothing,' I said. 'Actors and m...

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And this notion of the meaninglessness of our lives here began to enflame us.I took up the theme aga...

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The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential an...

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What's all this about sin, eh?''That,' I said, very sick. 'Using Ludwig van like that. He did no har...

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Delimitation is always difficult. The world is one, life is one. The sweetest and most heavenly of a...

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That was how we wanted to play, majestic and chaotic.

Music itself was color-blind but the media and the radio stations segregate it based on their percep...

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For some reason, the sight of snow descending on fire always makes me think of the ancient world – l...

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Anthony PowellA Question of Upbringing

I've never been in love. I've dreamt of it day and night, but my heart is like a fine piano no one c...

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In the Negro melodies of America I find all that is needed for a great and noble school of music.

For many years, I've wanted to do one, and I've always mentioned it to the chieftains, and they woul...

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To be honest, I never really considered myself to be too much of an actress. So, whenever I get the ...

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I really wanted to make the worst thing: the thing that even people who liked bad, terrible music wo...

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With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.

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AristotleThe Nicomachean Ethics

Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate....

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You probably think of the orchestra as a heterogeneous mass of instrumentsproducing a confused agree...

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Arnold BennettHow to Live on 24 Hours a Day

If it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art.

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Arnold SchoenbergStyle and Idea: Selected Writings

Bowman was aware of some changes in his behavior patterns; it would have been absurd to expect anyth...

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Do you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and appreciating...

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There is nothing more to be said or to be done tonight, so hand me over my violin and let us try to ...

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The public doesn't want new music the main thing that it demands of a composer is that he be dead.

We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.

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Arthur O'ShaughnessyPoems of Arthur O'Shaughnessy

We are the music-makers,And we are the dreamers of dreams,Wandering by lone sea-breakers,And sitting...

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The sonatas of Mozart are unique they are too easy for children and too difficult for artists.

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah that is wher...

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When she listened to songs that she loved on the radio, something stirred inside her. A liquid ache ...

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You can kill people with sound. And if you can kill, then maybe there is also the sound that is oppo...

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I don't really mind what people say about my love life or anything like that, but the one thing is t...

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Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitude t...

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You can't kick me down, I'm already on the ground. No, you can't, but you couldn't catch me anyhow.B...

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They scattered with no melody, no harmony, no rhythm to hold them. If music was emotion and emotion ...

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She sat listening to the music. It was a symphony of triumph. The notes flowed up, they spoke of ris...

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Ayn RandAtlas Shrugged

He had always wanted to write music, and he could give no other identity to the thing he sought. If ...

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Ayn RandThe Fountainhead

The dance is the silent partner of music and participates in a division of labor: music presents a s...

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Andrei, did you like the opera?""Not particularly.""Andrei, do you see what you're missing?""I don't...

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A piece of music is an experience to be taken by itself.

It is the part of a wise man, I say, to refresh and restore himself in moderation with pleasant food...

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You're just the girl of my dreamsBut it seems my dreams never come true

If you look at an old piece of sheet music, there's all kinds of text on it, there are ads, there ar...

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Every time you go in, it's like starting over. You don't know how you did the other records. You're ...

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Some need diamonds some need loveSome need cards some need luckSome need dollar bills lining their c...

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I grew up with the Blind Boys' music. My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called ...

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My choice is what I choose to do,And if I'm causing no harm, it shouldn't bother you.Your choice is ...

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I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of...

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Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.

A sad, plangent music. In the British camp, Sharpe thought, they would be singing, but no one was si...

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I travel fairly lightly because you have to these days. I always take a laptop and an iPod so I can ...

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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real ...

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For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay...

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One of the disadvantages of poetry over popular music is that if you write a pop song, it naturally ...

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Most of my arguments with musicians through the years have had more to do with their attitude about ...

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That’s the thing about jazz: it’s free flowing, it comes from your soul.

...And you're the only one who knows.

I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and t...

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In every heart there is a room,A sanctuary safe and strong,To heal the wounds from lovers past,Until...

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So I would choose to be with you,That's if the choice were mine to make,But you can make decisions t...

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We didn't start the fireIt was always burningSince the world's been turningWe didn't start the fireN...

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And the waitress is practicing politicsAs the businessmen slowly get stonedYes, they're sharing a dr...

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She always says I'm the best friend that she's ever had... how do you hang up on someone who needs y...

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He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.

I'm a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl.

Now that rock is turning 50, it's become classical itself. It's interesting to see that development.

The music of ABBA is not that happy. It might sound happy, in some strange way, but deep within, it'...

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To do what you love and are passionate about is a dream come true, My life is consumed by music and ...

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