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“Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society.”

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Edward Bond

Edward Bond is a prominent British playwright, born on July 18, 1934. His works are known for their strong political and social commentary and are considered among the representative figures of postmodern drama. more

“The joy is actually in the music. It's the music that supports you and tells you what to do. It tells you how to fill the music. You don't have to be shy about feeling the music when you're singing. If you believe in music-the power of music-the music will support you and take you to another dimension.”

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Author:Cecilia Bartoli

“It's the singer not the song that makes the music move along.”

Moving Song Music Singers

Author:Pete Townshend

“Maybe it's naïve, but I would love to believe that once you grow to love some aspect of a culture-its music, for instance -you can never again think of the people of that culture as less than yourself. I would like to believe that if I am deeply moved by a song originating from some place other than my own homeland, then I have in some way shared an experience with the people of that culture. I have been pleasantly contaminated. I can identify in some small way with it and its people.”

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Author:David Byrne

“When I hear music, it seems to me that all the sins of my life pass slowly by me with veiled faces, lay their hands on my head, and say softly, "My child."”

Children Hands Seems Faces Sin Music Lays My Children

Author:Sidney Lanier

“A man in Mali told me that there are seven senses. Everyone has five, some can use their sixth. But not everyone has the seventh. It is the power to heal with music, calm with color, to soothe the sick soul with harmony. He told me that I have this gift, and I know what I have to do with it.”

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Author:Marie Daulne

“Music is nourishment, and a comforting elixir. Music multiplies the beauty of life and all its values.”

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Author:Zoltan Kodaly

“Appalachia is still, for American musicians, a kind of fountain of youth we always go back to, the old home place to a group of artists who represent the quintessence of American independence, fortitude, genius, and madness.”

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Author:Paul Burch

“What is my definition of jazz? "Safe sex of the highest order."”

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Book:Armageddon in Retrospect

Source: Armageddon in Retrospect

“The people who are having the hard time right now are middle-income Americans. Under the president's policies, middle-income Americans have been buried. They're just being crushed. Middle-income Americans have seen their income come down by $4,300. This is a tax in and of itself. I'll call it the economy tax. It's been crushing.”

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Author:Mitt Romney

“If you're 54 or 55, you might want to listen because this will affect you. The idea, which was originally presented by Congressman Ryan, your running mate, is that we would give a voucher to seniors and they could go out in the private marketplace and buy their own health insurance.”

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Author:Barack Obama

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