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“Writing more and more to the sound of music, writing more and more like music. Sitting in my studio tonight, playing record after record, writing, music a stimulant of the highest order, far more potent than wine.”

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Author:Anais Nin

“I encourage film students who are interested in cinematography to study sculpture, paintings, music, writing and other arts. Filmmaking consists of all the arts combined. Students are always asking me for advice, and I tell them that they have to be enthusiastic, because it's hard work. The only way to enjoy it is to be totally immersed. If you don't get involved on that level, it could be a very miserable job. I only have one regret about my career: I'm sorry that we are not making silent movies any more. That is the purest art form I can imagine.”

“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.”

“I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.”

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Author:James Brown

“Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.”

“Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.”

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Author:Ludwig van Beethoven

“Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memories.”

Source: Epigrams of Oscar Wilde

“Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.”

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Book:Robert Browning's complete works

Source: Robert Browning's complete works

“Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.”

Source: The Way of All Flesh

“The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.”

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Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“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

“Star quality: I don't know what it is, but I've got it.”

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Author:Noel Coward

“There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it.”

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Author:Ronnie Wood