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“The world will be a misery without music.”

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“The rich, deep sounds of the pipe organ seem to vibrate through my whole body, as the notes tumble out from under skillful fingers.”

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“sound is not a means and music the end; music a value term applied to recognized patterns of sound. What you call sound is simply music you don't like.”

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“Lyrics do that sometimes. They find their home at just the right time. Like a secret message in a bottle, floating on a current for decades, only to wash up at someone's feet when the words are needed.”

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“I can't discard a verse before it is written because it is the writing of the verse that produces whatever delights or interests or facets that are going to catch the light. The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines. You can't discover that in the raw. ~ Leonard Cohen”

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Book:Songwriters On Songwriting

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“An inability to coherently express an opinion manifests itself by incoherent verbal abuse”

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“Like magic, some music appears in the air, out of nowhere, like a mirage, like the fluff in my belly button.”

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Book:"Darling, it's not only about sex"

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“Music and showers refresh like no other.”

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“I'm not sure why it makes me feel weird to know that people are playing something I had a hand in creating, but it does. It feels too public somehow, like this thing that I do on my own to stay sane doesn't belong completely to me anymore, or something.”

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Book:You Should See Me in a Crown

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“I would hope not to be like the artist who has to depend on the naivety of his audience for applause.”

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“Even then, even though hippies were unaware, Peace, Love, and Music was a brand, preying on our nostalgia for an experience few who worship it ever had.”

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Book:Holidays with Bigfoot

Source: Holidays with Bigfoot