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“Music is my personal addiction. So much of everything I've done has only been to open more doors for the music itself. It all gets back to the fact that I am, first of all, a songwriter and a singer.”

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Author:Dolly Parton

“Music is a language by whose means messages are elaborated, that such messages can be understood by the many but sent out only by few, and that it alone among all the languages unites the contradictory character of being at once intelligible and untranslatable - these facts make the creator of music a being like the gods.”

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Author:Claude Levi-Strauss

“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

“My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.”

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Book:Listen to Bob Marley: The Man, the Music, the Revolution

Source: Listen to Bob Marley: The Man, the Music, the Revolution

“Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.”

Source: Critical & Miscellaneous Essays: Collected & Republished

“There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.”

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Book:Silence: Lectures and Writings

Source: Silence: Lectures and Writings

“With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.”

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Book:Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

Source: Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

“Hipness is not a state of mind, It's a fact of life!”

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Author:Cannonball Adderley

“I like the music. I love it & live it in fact. But for me the business part of music just plain stinks.”

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Author:Artie Shaw

“My life is music, and in some vague, mysterious and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled me to almost compulsively reach for perfection in music, often - in fact, mostly - at the expense of everything else in my life.”

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Book:Stan Getz - Omnibook: For B-flat Instruments

Source: Stan Getz - Omnibook: For B-flat Instruments