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“Do you think I give a damn about your and your pathetic violin?”

Thinking Giving Music Damn Pathetic Violin

Author:Ludwig van Beethoven

“I don't bother so much about the others' songs. For instance, I don't give a damn about how 'Something' is doing in the charts - I watch 'Come Together' (the flip side) because that's my song.”

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Author:John Lennon

“I felt that film (Let It Be) was set up by Paul for Paul. That is one of the main reasons the Beatles ended. I can't speak for George, but I pretty damn well know we got fed up of being sidemen for Paul. After Brian died, that's what happened, that's what began to happen to us. The camera work was set up to show Paul and not anybody else. And that's how I felt about it.”

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Author:John Lennon

“There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.”

“Damn it, when I'm bombastic, I have my reasons. I want to be bombastic-take it or leave it.”

Want Reason Music Jazz Musical Damn Bombastic

Book:Take five: the public and private lives of Paul Desmond

Source: Take five: the public and private lives of Paul Desmond

“It's like if you plant something in the concrete and if it grow and the rose petal got all kinds of scratches and marks, you ain't gonna say, 'Damn, look at all the scratches and marks on the rose that grew from the concrete.' You're gonna be like, 'Damn, a rose grew from the concrete?'”

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Author:Tupac Shakur

“Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory.”

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Author:Ray Charles

“If you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night!”

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Author:Count Basie

“The greatest thing is the internet and that means that anybody, you have just as much access as I do. And you can make your little tape and work on it and work on it until you got it the way you want it. And then you can put it on the net. And if it's any damn good somebody's gonna notice. That's happened over and over again now. To me that's good. That's good access that isn't controlled by the companies. I think that's a great thing.”

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Author:David Crosby

“It was Vivaldi's Mandolin Concerto, Francesca Abraham realized as the radio alarm went off. Lively, unrelentingly upbeat, it was the perfect tempo in which to start the day. Covering her head with a pillow, she reached out blindly and urgently, desperate to shut the damn thing off.”

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Book:The Ghost of Hannah Mendes

Source: The Ghost of Hannah Mendes