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“And wheresoever, in his rich creation, Sweet music breathes--in wave, or bird, or soul-- 'Tis but the faint and far reverberation Of that great tune to which the planets roll!”

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Author:Frances Sargent Osgood

“It's very difficult for me to dislike an artist. No matter what he's creating, the fact that he's experiencing the joy of creation makes me feel like we're in a brotherhood of some kind we're in it together.”

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Author:Chick Corea

“Drugs have nothing to do with the creation of music. In fact, they are dumb and self indulgent. Kind of like sucking your thumb!”

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Author:Courtney Love

“The creation and destruction of harmonic and 'statistical' tensions is essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or improvisation) which remains consonant and 'regular' throughout is, for me, equivalent to watching a movie with only 'good guys' in it, or eating cottage cheese.”

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Author:Frank Zappa

“We must see that music theory is not only about music, but about how people process it. To understand any art, we must look below its surface into the psychological details of its creation and absorption.”

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Author:Marvin Minsky

“Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world.”

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Book:Giuseppe Mazzini's Philosophy of Music: (1836) : Envisioning a Social Opera

Source: Giuseppe Mazzini's Philosophy of Music: (1836) : Envisioning a Social Opera