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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

“the hymns were born in the fifteenth or sixteenth century or earlier, and listening to them was like licking an icicle: the same chill, the same purity.”

Born Music Century Listening Purity Chill Hymns Licking Icicles

Book:Manhattan Memoir

Source: Manhattan Memoir

“I traveled and made money and I wouldn't let anybody get between me and my music. If I belong to anything, I belong to my music. ...What you were born to do, you don't stop to think, should I? could I? would I? I only think, will I? And, I shall!”

Ifs Thinking Should Made Born Music Musician Commitment Should I Traveled

Author:Eva Jessye

“I'm gonna put a curse on you and all your kids will be born completely naked.”

Kids Born Music Naked Curse Guitar Music

Author:Jimi Hendrix

“Actually I don't remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs.”

Funny Remember Black Born Music Happened Birth Nightlife

Author:Jim Morrison

“On the stage of the Italian Terrace Room in the William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1938 ... the place where Champagne Music was born.”

Born Music Hotel Hospitality Champagne Pittsburgh

Author:Lawrence Welk

“Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.”

Ifs Writing Doe Light Law Born Music Knowing Painting Perspective Fine Jazz Suits Shade Creative Writing Art Music Rearranging

Author:Truman Capote

“Music has no effect on research work, but both are born of the same source and complement each other through the satisfaction they bestow”

Born Music Effects Source Research Satisfaction Complement

Author:Albert Einstein

“Once I could play what I heard inside me, that's when I was born.”

Play Born Music Heard Jazz Chords High Notes

Author:Charlie Parker

“I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.”

Source: Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story

“One of the reasons I believe in jazz is that the oneness of man can come through the rhythm of your heart. It’s the same anyplace in the world, that heartbeat. It’s the first thing you hear when you’re born — or before you’re born — and it’s the last thing you hear.”

Men World Firsts Believe Heart Reason Lasts I Believe Born Music Jazz I Believe In Rhythm Oneness Composer Heartbeat Pianist

Author:Dave Brubeck

“There are three things I was born with in this world, and there are three things I will have until the day I die-hope, determination, and song.”

World Song Dies Three Born Music This World Determination Hopeful Three Things

Author:Miriam Makeba