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“He liked to think that Heaven was what each person wanted it to be. He could see no future in lying around on a fluffy white cloud and listening to somebody playing on a harp, a picture of Heaven he had seen numerous times in one form or another. Even if it was that way, his personal preference would have run more to the fiddle.”

Source: The Good Old Boys and The Smiling Country: Two Classic Westerns

“The maplewood flat-finished Martin had represented the most outrageous luxury in her life when she bought it in 1971 for four hundred dollars. But Lonnie Slocum assured her the Martin was a good investment, even if she never learned to play it better than an acid head who was into heavy metal.”

Ifs Play Music Four Hundred Dollars Investment Heavy Finished Luxury Flats Metals Assured Acid Outrageous Heavy Metal

Author:Dan Jenkins

“Each time my mother went psychotic, I hoped it would be the last time. Afterward she would tell me, 'I think that was the final episode. I think I had a breakthrough.' And I would believe-for a few months-that it was true. That she was back to stay. Maybe it was like having a rock star mother who was always on the road. Were there Benatar children? Did they sit around and wonder if their mom's Hell is for Children tour was going to be her last tour?”

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Book:Running with Scissors: A Memoir

Source: Running with Scissors: A Memoir

“I discovered at 18 that singing and songwriting was my strength. I decided that it was closest to my heart and if I pursued it then there would be no competition. I would just live my life being myself and living my dream.”

Ifs Heart Dream Would Be Music My Heart Singing Decided Competition Songwriting Closest Living My Life Pursued Just Live Being Myself

Author:Jason Mraz

“The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Done Music Songwriting Repetition Good Way Know It All You Think You Know

Author:A. R. Rahman

“The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn't be able to do that.”

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Author:Oscar Peterson

“Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they're trying to say with jazz. You don't need any prologues, you just play. If you have something to say of any worth then people will listen to you.”

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Author:Oscar Peterson

“If you possess something but you can't give it away, then you don't possess it... it possesses you.”

Ifs Giving Music

Author:Frank Sinatra

“My mother always told me, even if a song has been done a thousand times, you can still bring something of your own to it. I'd like to think I did that.”

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Author:Etta James

“I can destroy a dance floor. I think life should be a musical. I always hate it when people watch a musical and they go, 'Oh, it's so unrealistic, no one just breaks into song in the middle of their day.' Yeah, they do- if they're me.”

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Author:Zachary Levi

“I like any and all of my associations with music: writing, playing, and listening. We write and play from our perspective, and the audience listens from its perspective. If and when we agree, I am lucky.”

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Author:Duke Ellington

“My driving philosophy about making music is that you can reduce it all down to one note if that note is played with the right kind of sincerity.”

Ifs Kind Philosophy Music Music Is Notes Driving Sincerity Rock N Roll

Author:Eric Clapton

“If there's any such thing as a perfect man, I think John Coltrane was one. And I think that kind of perfection has to come from a greater force than there is here on earth.”

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Author:Elvin Jones

“If I don’t practice for a day, I know it. If I don’t practice for two days, the critics know it. And if I don’t practice for three days, the public knows it.”

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Author:Louis Armstrong

“Now, guitar was pretty cool. Everybody knew something on the guitar. So I wanted to play guitar, but I told my dad if he wanted me to keep studying something, Id like to study piano.”

Ifs Play Wanted Music Study Dad Guitar My Dad Piano

Author:Jackson Browne

“Writing a song doesn't heal things. Even if the song comes up with a solution, it's still only a theory. Going out and living my lyrics is a whole other deal. That takes courage.”

Ifs Writing Stills Whole Song Deals Music Theory Solutions Come Up Heal Going Out

Author:Alanis Morissette

“I decided, if I'm going to be poor and black and all, the least thing I'm going to do is to try and find out who I am. I created everything about me.”

Ifs Trying Black Poor Music Discovery Decided Jazz Who I Am

Author:Ornette Coleman

“I say, play your own way. Don't play what the public want - you play what you want and let the public pick up on what you doing - even if it does take them fifteen, twenty years.”

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Author:Thelonious Monk

“If it weren't for music, I would think that love is mortal.”

Ifs Thinking Love Is Music Mortals

Author:Mark Helprin

“Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic.”