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“I had to get rich so I could afford to sing like I was poor again.”

Poor Money Music Poverty Rich Get Rich

Book:Dream More: Celebrate the Dreamer in You

Source: Dream More: Celebrate the Dreamer in You

“Music is the poor man's Parnassus.”

Men Poor Music Music Is Poor Man

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Music is of two kinds: one petty, poor, second-rate, never varying, its base the hundred or so phrasings which all musicians understand, a babbling which is more or less pleasant, the life that most composers live.”

Kind Two Poor Music Musician Music Is Hundred Rate Pleasant Composer Petty Second Rate Babbling

Author:Honore de Balzac

“The mastery of one's phonemes may be compared to the violinist's mastery of fingering. The violin string lends itself to a continuous gradation of tones, but the musician learns the discrete intervals at which to stop the string in order to play the conventional notes. We sound our phonemes like poor violinists, approximating each time to a fancied norm, and we receive our neighbor's renderings indulgently, mentally rectifying the more glaring inaccuracies.”

May Play Order Language Sound Poor Music Musician Notes Neighbor Tone Strings Mastery Conventional Norm Violin Intervals Rendering Violinist Discrete

Author:Willard Van Orman Quine

“Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?”

Thinking Doe Bigs Poor Emotion Music Clever Sarcasm Sarcastic Think Big Repartee

Author:Ernest Hemingway

“Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical. Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor. Why, Italian Futurists, have you slavishly reproduced only what is commonplace and boring in the bustle of our daily lives. I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm.”

“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