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The song that nerves a nation's heart is in itself a deed.

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The technical history of modern harmony is a history of growth of toleration by the human ear of chords that at first sounded discordant and senseless to the main body of contemporary professional musicians.

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The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done.

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Music is a defining element of character.

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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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Without music, life would be a blank to me.

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Music causes us to think eloquently.

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Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

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In a sadly pleasing strain, let the warbling lute complain.

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Every day the bucket a-go a well, one day the bottom a-go drop out.

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I am never merry when I hear sweet music.

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My people had used music to soothe slavery's torment or to propitiate God, or to describe the sweetness of love and the distress of lovelessness, but I knew no race could sing and dance its way to freedom.

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Speaking of Georges Bizet: His music has the tang of sunny climates, their bracing air, their clearness. It voices a sensibility hitherto unknown to us.

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music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts.

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Preposterous ass, that never read so far to know the cause why music was ordain'd! Was it not to refresh the mind of man, after his studies or his usual pain?

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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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The song that nerves a nation's heart is in itself a deed.

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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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Music is the melody whose text is the world.

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I do but sing because I must; and pipe but as the linnets sing.

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