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“Writing music is my one and only passion and joy.”

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Author:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“What we play is life.”

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Author:Louis Armstrong

“What Music expresses is eternal, infinite, and ideal; she expresses not the passion, love, desire, of this or that individual in this or that condition, but Passion, Love, Desire itself, and in such infinitely varied phases as lie in her unique possession and are foreign and unknown to any other tongue...So...Here's to Victory, gained by our higher sense over the worthlessness of the vulgar! To Love, which crowns our courage...To the day, to the night!...And three cheers for Music.”

Source: Pilgrimage to Beethoven and Other Essays

“It is a bird-flight of the soul, when the heart declares itself in song. The affections that clothe themselves with wings are passions that have been subdued to virtues.”

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Book:Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside

Source: Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside

“If there is a gratification which I envy any people in this world it is to your country [Italy] its music. This is the favorite passion of my soul, and fortune has cast my lot in a country where it is in a state of deplorable barbarism.”

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Book:The portable Thomas Jefferson

Source: The portable Thomas Jefferson

“In music the passions enjoy themselves.”

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Book:Basic Writings of Nietzsche

Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche

“To play without passion is inexcusable!”

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Author:Ludwig van Beethoven

“Some people have lives; some people have music.”

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Book:Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“I'm already crazy. I'm a fearless person. I think it creeps up on you. I don't think it can be stopped. If my destiny is to lose my mind because of fame, then that's my destiny. But my passion still means more than anything.”

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Author:Lady Gaga

“I've got a fierce passion for politics but I can't stand the smarmy, hypocritical upper-middle-class dictator nation that prevails and has always prevailed in this country. I'm up for petrol bombers, mate, and fighting in the streets.”

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Author:Pete Doherty

“Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.”

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Book:The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh: Kt. Political, Commercial, and Philosophical; Together with His Letters and Poems. The Whole Never Before Collected Together, and Some Never Yet Printed. To which is Prefix'd, a New Account of His Life by Tho. Birch

Source: The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh: Kt. Political, Commercial, and Philosophical; Together with His Letters and Poems. The Whole Never Before Collected Together, and Some Never Yet Printed. To which is Prefix'd, a New Account of His Life by Tho. Birch

“It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion.”

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Author:Steve Winwood

“There was passion, there was laughter The first morning after I just couldn't get my feet to touch the ground Everytime we were together We talked about forever I was certain it was Heaven We had found.”

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Author:Lee Ann Womack

“Music directly imitates the passions or states of the soul...when one listens to music that imitates a certain passion, he becomes imbued withthe same passion; and if over a long time he habitually listens to music that rouses ignoble passions, his whole character will be shaped to an ignoble form.”

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Author:Aristotle

“All I try to do is write music that feels meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion behind it.”

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Author:Bruce Springsteen

“What passion cannot music raise and quell!”

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Author:John Dryden

“Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.”

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Book:Fatherhood

Source: Fatherhood