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Writing a song doesn't heal things. Even if the song comes up with a solution, it's still only a theory. Going out and living my lyrics is a whole other deal. That takes courage.

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I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.

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Music is the art... which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the condition to which all the other arts are constantly aspiring.

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I was in New York, miserable because I was working supper clubs but I wasn't expressing myself. I was really unhappy with my life. I saw Max Roach again and he told me I didn't have to do things like that. He made me an honest woman on the stage. I have been performing in that tradition since. I feel that I'm a serious performer now whereas then I wanted to be but I didn't know how.

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I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and it was the truth then, and it will be the truth tomorrow.

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If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

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Only dead people need loud music, you know.

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The harmony of a concert, to which you listen with delight, must have on certain classes of minute animals the effect of terrible thunder; perhaps it kills them.

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Music is the brandy of the damned.

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And in their motions harmony divine So smoothes her charming tones, that God's own ear Listens delighted.

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How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets Where no crude surfeit reigns

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All riddles are blues, / And all blues are sad, / And I'm only mentioning / Some blues I've had.

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All singers have this fault: if asked to sing among friends they are never so inclined; if unasked, they never leave off.

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It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.

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Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!

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Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

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There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

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The sweetest music is not in the oratorio, but in the human voice when it speaks from its instant life tones of tenderness, truth, or courage.

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The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

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The House ...She lays her beams in music, In music everyone, To the cadence of the whirling world Which dances around the sun- That so they shall not be displaced By lapses or by wars, But for the love of happy souls Outlive the newest stars.

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