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“Throughout my career, nervousness and stage-fright have never left me before playing. And each of the thousands of concerts I have played at, I feel as bad as I did the very first time.”

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Author:Pablo Casals

“In Paris in 1964 was the first time I ever heard Dylan at all. Paul got the record (The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan) from a French DJ. For three weeks in Paris we didn't stop playing it. We all went potty about Dylan.”

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Author:John Lennon

“The first typical adolescent of modern times was Wagner's Siegfried. : the music of Siegfried expressed for the first time that combination of (provisional) purity, physical strength, naturism, spontaneity and joie de vivre which was to make the adolescent the hero of our twentieth century, the century of adolescence.”

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Book:Centuries of childhood: a social history of family life

Source: Centuries of childhood: a social history of family life

“When I sing, I feel like when you're first in love. It's more than sex. It's that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it's gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.”

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Author:Janis Joplin

“Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music as if for the first time, as if I had never heard it before. Being so inescapably a part of it, I'll never know what the listener gets, what the listener feels, and that's too bad.”

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Author:John Coltrane

“When Bird came on the scene, it was just as shocking as in the Bible: everything was dark, and then the light appeared for the first time.”

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Author:Shorty Rogers

“The first time I heard Bird play, it hit me right between the eyes.”

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Author:John Coltrane

“Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music for the first time, as if I had never heard it before.”

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Author:John Coltrane

“I'm just trying to unite the western crowd and the bluegrass crowd a little more. ... I get to do that again on my new album, Tall Grass and Cool Water.... This is the first time I've had every song on an album be a Bluegrass and Cowboy Song at the same time.”

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Author:Michael Martin Murphey