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“Blessed is he who invented recording! But what a pity that he was not born centuries earlier! Think only of all that we would be able to hear and therefore understand better. Oh, the unending research in libraries and museums, the readings and collations of texts, the maddening desire to know the truth!”

Thinking Knows Would Be Able Desire Reading Born Music Century Research Blessed Library Pity Museums Unending

Author:Wanda Landowska

“Paint pictures with sound. First, find your white-the deepest, roundest sound you can play on the guitar. Then, find your black-which is the most extreme tonal difference from white you can play. Now, just pick the note where you've got white, pick it where you've got black, and then find all those colors in between. Get those colors down, and you'll be able to express almost any emotion on the guitar.?”

Firsts Play Able Sound Black Differences White Emotion Music Color Picks Down And Notes Paint Guitar Extremes

Author:Les Paul

“We reckoned we could make it because there were four of us. None at us would've made it alone, because Paul wasn't quite strong enough, I didn't have enough girl-appeal, George was too quiet, and Ringo was the drummer. But we thought that everyone would be able to dig at least one of us, and that's how it turned out.”

Made Enough Would Be Able Girl Strong Music Four Quiet Music Is Made It Appeals Strong Enough Drummer Ringo

Author:John Lennon

“For me to be able to reach out to other people throughout all this has been great, people want to hear from me and hear my music right now so it keeps me happy. I cherish every moment. I have a different perspective on everything now. In the end, I think it will make me a better person.”

People Thinking Want Persons Has Beens Different Ends Moments Able Music Perspective Right Now Cherish Reach Out Great People Better Person Different Perspective Cherish Every Moment

Author:Will Allison

“I'm able to laugh now, because I've gone through a lot of mental and physical therapy to heal over the years, my music's been wonderful for me. But I was a shell of my former self at one point. I was not myself. To be fair, I was about 19, so ... I went to Catholic school and all this crazy stuff happened, and I was going, 'Oh, is this just the way adults are?' I was very naive.”

Way Years Self Able School Stuff Music Laughing Gone Wonderful Happened Crazy Adults Fairs Catholic Heal Former Therapy Shells Naive Catholic School Physical Therapy

Author:Lady Gaga

“Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?”

Source: Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo

“If I knew I was going to die at a specific moment in the future, it would be nice to be able to control what song I was listening to; this is why I always bring my iPod on airplanes.”

Ifs Moments Would Be Able Song Dies Music Nice Listening Airplane Being Nice Ipods

Book:Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story

Source: Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story

“If I didn't have some kind of education, then I wouldn't be able to count my money.”

Ifs Kind Able Funny Music

Author:Missy Elliot

“If we compel the composer to write in terms of what the listener is able to hear, we flirt with the danger of freezing the evolution of musical language, whose progressive development comes about through transgressions of a given era's perceptual habits."”

Ifs Writing Able Language Given Term Music Danger Development Evolution Habit Musical Eras Progressive Composer Listeners Flirting Transgression Freezing

Book:Music and Discourse: Toward a Semiology of Music

Source: Music and Discourse: Toward a Semiology of Music

“At a very early age I began to thump on the piano alone, and it was not long before I was able to pick out a few tunes? I also learned the names of the notes in both clefs, but I preferred not be hampered by notes.”

Long Age Able Names Music Picks Notes Piano Tunes

Book:The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson: Social, political, and literary essays

Source: The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson: Social, political, and literary essays

“If kids say I'm just a gospel rapper, I won't be able to get in their cars.”

Ifs Kids Able Music Car Rapper

Author:MC Hammer

“The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn't be able to do that.”

People Ifs Firsts Play Able Together Order Music Break Fields Barriers Songwriting Breaking Down Inhibitions

Author:Oscar Peterson