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“If you don't like Louis Armstrong, you don't know how to love.”

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Author:Mahalia Jackson

“I feel fortunate that I've had a lot of songs recorded by other people, because I take my songwriting very seriously. It's only those people that have followed me over the years and really know my work that know how serious I am about all of it - including the way I look. You can't take my high heels from me, you can't have my long fingernails, you can't take all this hair from me, because it's part of this thing that I've become. I wouldn't want to give any of it up. Do I have to be ugly to be a songwriter? This is the way I am, and it's what I choose to be.”

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Author:Dolly Parton

“Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has.”

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Author:Mary J. Blige

“It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.”

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Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein

“A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't.”

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Author:Mark Twain

“The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen.”

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Author:Duke Ellington

“I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.”

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Author:Martin Luther

“It isn't true that you live only once. You only die once. You live lots of times if you know how.”

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Author:Bobby Darin

“The day of the great Jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is over.”

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Author:Maynard Ferguson