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“How can one express the indefinable sensations that one experiences while writing an instrumental composition that has no definite subject? It is a purely lyrical process. It is a musical confession of the soul, which unburdens itself through sounds just as a lyric poet expresses himself through poetry...As the poet Heine said, 'Where words leave off, music begins.'”

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Author:Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

“Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.”

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Author:Ludwig van Beethoven

“Whether a person is spiritual or not, we all seek to get away from the stress, anger, and anxiety of everyday life. Some people drink, do drugs, or do worse to escape, and they hurt themselves in the process. Some people listen to music, mine included, and feel better.”

Source: Yanni in Words

“We must see that music theory is not only about music, but about how people process it. To understand any art, we must look below its surface into the psychological details of its creation and absorption.”

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Author:Marvin Minsky

“One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange.”

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Author:Dizzy Gillespie

“Nothing else will ever capture the democratic process in sound as perfectly as Jazz.”

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Author:Wynton Marsalis

“Not only was he not mad, but he was a musician, and my favorite men had always been musicians or writers or anything that involved the creative process and behaving like tortured artists. ... I found financial insecurity a great aphrodisiac.”

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Book:Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married

Source: Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married

“My discussion with Keith Richards about the creative process led me to believe that there's an invisible presence of a stream of ever-flowing creativity that we overhear-all you have to do is pull up the antenna and dial it in. This presence allows you to maintain your sense of origin and move forward.”

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Author:Billy Gibbons