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• I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity.

  Billy Joel

  Music, Healing, Thinking

  Interview with Anthony DeCurtis, www.rollingstone.com. November 06, 1986.

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• I'm so sorry for you; your lives have been so easy. You can't play great music unless your heart's been broken.

  Benjamin Zander

  Sorry, Heart, Play

  Rosamund Stone Zander, Benjamin Zander (2002). “The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life”, p.33, Penguin

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• Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

  Frank Zappa

  Music, Time, Bills

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

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• They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

  Charlie Parker

  Music, Art, Men

  Quoted in Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff, Hear Me Talkin' to Ya (1955)

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• I think sometimes could I only have music on my own terms, could I live in a great city, and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves, that were a bath and a medicine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Music, Thinking, Cities

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.53, Harvard University Press

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

  Joseph Addison

  Music, Wisdom, Heaven

  'A Song for St Cecilia's Day'

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  Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

  Charlie Parker

  Music, Art, Men

  Quoted in Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff, Hear Me Talkin' to Ya (1955)

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• Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Life, Music

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• They were and still are a groundbreaking band. Even though they haven't released any new music in ages, you can put on the first Black Sabbath album and it still sounds as fresh today as it did 30-odd years ago. And that's because great music has a timeless ability: To me, Sabbath are in the same league as the Beatles or Mozart. They're on the leading edge of something extraordinary.

  Rob Halford

  Years, League, Black

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• How great musicians demonstrate a mutual respect and trust on the bandstand can alter your outlook on the world and enrich every aspect of your life, understanding what it means to be a global citizen in the most modern sense.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Music, Mean, Understanding

  Wynton Marsalis, Geoffrey Ward (2008). “Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life”, p.15, Random House

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• Then the voices of the Ainur, like unto harps and lutes, and pipes and trumpets, and viols and organs, and like unto countless choirs singing with words, began to fashipn the theme of Iluvatar to a great music; and a sound arose of endless interchanging melodies woven in harmony that passed beyond hearing into the depths and into the heights, and the places of the dwelling of Iluvatar were filled to overflowing, and the music and the echo of the music went out into the Void, and it was not void.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Echoes, Voice, Dwelling

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• Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die.

  Francois Truffaut

  Book, Three, Records

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• The virtuosos look to the students of the world to do their share in the education of the great musical public. Do not waste your time with music that is trite or ignoble. Life is too short to spend it wandering in the barren Saharas of musical trash.

  Sergei Rachmaninoff

  Life Is Too Short, Musical, World

  "Great Pianists on Piano Playing". Book by James Francis Cooke, p. 217, 1999.

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• I think there will always be great new music and bands. As long as there's people around, there's going to be great music. I think there's bands like Wolf Eyes, Q & Not U, the Evens and many others that are doing great stuff. The music that doesn't please you, you just don't listen. No one makes me listen to Nickelback, so long may they wave.

  Henry Rollins

  Eye, Thinking, Long

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• It is always an honor to work with those that share your passion for music and just enjoy making great music.

  Solange Knowles

  Inspiring, Passion, Honor

  "Solange Knowles Q&A". Interview with Seventeen Magazine, www.seventeen.com. August 25, 2008.

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• Great Music, it said, and Great Poetry would like quieten Modern Youth down and make Modern Youth more Civilized. Civilized my syphilised yarbles.

  Anthony Burgess

  Modern Youth, Down And, Said

  Anthony Burgess (2012). “A Clockwork Orange (Restored Text)”, p.48, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I really want to do the unexpected, and I think that's what I did when I executed 'Long.Live.A$AP.' I wanted people to really see the message and that I'm an artist who not only has the capability of rapping, but of composing great music both for people of my generation and for people with different backgrounds.

  ASAP Rocky

  Rap, Artist, Thinking

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• Slightly forgettable movies can sometimes make great musicals.

  Mark Gatiss

  Sometimes, Forgettable

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• Gilmartins voice is angelic, but her lyrical subjects are often serious and slightly sad. The conflict of the beauty of her voice and the sadness of her lyrics makes for great music!

  Jeff Belanger

  Sadness, Voice, Serious

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• I believe as musicians and artists we have an obligation to our souls. What that is? Only each one of us knows. I can speak for myself and say my obligation is to be happy. When I’m happy, I make great music. When I’m unhappy and my heart is broken, I may make brokenhearted music, but it still sounds good.

  Narada Michael Walden

  Believe, Heart, Artist

  "BLACK MUSIC MONTH: Legends Speak". Interview with Chris Williams, www.ebony.com. June 19, 2012.

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• All great music is in one way or another psychedelic.

  Genesis P-Orridge

  Way, Psychedelic, Music Is

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• Now, I don't want to give you the impression that I'm a great musicologist, but I'm a lot better than what I was described as for a long, long time; you know, people said I only knew three chords when I knew five.

  Leonard Cohen

  Long, People, Giving

  BBC Radio 1FM Interview, 1994.

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• I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.

  Nancy Sinatra

  Mother, Daughter, Boards

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There were so many great music and political scenes going on in the late '60s in Cambridge. The ratio of guys to girls at Harvard was four to one, so all of those things were playing in my mind.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Girl, Guy, Political

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• They say that Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a homosexual. Truth be told, we don't love him because of that, but he was a great musician, and we all love his music. So what? I assure you that I work with these people. I sometimes award them with state prizes or decorations for their achievements in various fields. We have absolutely normal relations, and I don't see anything out of the ordinary here.

  Vladimir Putin

  Gay, Awards, Tchaikovsky

  "Tchaikovsky May Have Been Gay, Putin Reluctantly Admits" by • Alexander Abad-Santos, www.theatlantic.com. September 4, 2013.

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