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“A lot of people think that the music was responsible for a lot of changes in the Sixties, but I think the music came out of it. The music wouldnt have happened without the social changes.”

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Author:Steve Winwood

“Only the drum is confident, it thinks the world has not changed”

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Book:The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: 1928-1938

Source: The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: 1928-1938

“So we come together before you on this day, March 30th, 2015, with one voice in unity in the hopes that today will be another one of those moments in time, a moment that will forever change the course of music history.”

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Author:Alicia Keys

“I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That's all I know.”

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Author:Billie Holiday

“Of course we've lost so many superstars who've made jazz what it is. We've lost so many musicians who created new things and changed the way we think about music and who took jazz to a new level. So jazz is suffering from that. But we still have a lot of incredible people playing jazz in the world. We have a lot of people leading the way.”

“The real art of conducting consists in transitions.”

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Author:Gustav Mahler

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”

Source: The Hobbit

“Music can change the world because it can change people.”

“Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.”

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Author:Ira Gershwin

“Change is always happening. That's one of the wonderful things about Jazz music.”

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Author:Maynard Ferguson

“We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over the literature; we play the music; we change our minds; we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.”

Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays