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“Jazz voices that unvanquishable, natural will toward creaativity and self-expression, depite everything, in the here and now.”

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Author:Stephanie Mills

“Music exists when rhythmic, melodic or harmonic order is deliberately created, and consciously listened to, and it is only language-using, self-conscious creatures ... who are capable of organizing sounds in this way, either when uttering them or when perceiving them. We can hear music in the song of the nightingale, but it is music that no nightingale has heard.”

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Book:Understanding Music: Philosophy and Interpretation

Source: Understanding Music: Philosophy and Interpretation

“jazz is the expression of America's romantic self, its sensual potency, its lyrical force.”

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Author:Anais Nin

“The time is probably not far distant when music will stand revealed perchance as the mightiest of the arts, and certainly as the one art peculiarly representative of our modern world, with its intense life, complex civilization, and feverish self-consciousness.”

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Book:Music and morals

Source: Music and morals

“I'm able to laugh now, because I've gone through a lot of mental and physical therapy to heal over the years, my music's been wonderful for me. But I was a shell of my former self at one point. I was not myself. To be fair, I was about 19, so ... I went to Catholic school and all this crazy stuff happened, and I was going, 'Oh, is this just the way adults are?' I was very naive.”

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Author:Lady Gaga

“Drugs have nothing to do with the creation of music. In fact, they are dumb and self indulgent. Kind of like sucking your thumb!”

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Author:Courtney Love

“Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!”

“I'm a fairly tormented artist, and I'm less willing to indulge myself in self-pity, outside of songwriting.”

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Author:Dave Matthews

“I don't just write music to esthetically satisfy somebody. The reason I write music is that I feel it's a vehicle or channel which leads to your true self, your essence.”

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Author:George Russell

“Art is self expression. If you are expressing someone else's personality, that is not art.”

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Author:Bennie Wallace

“Keeping your artistic self as creative as possible is a balancing act.”

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Author:Karrin Allyson

“Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What human beings can be, they must be. They must be true to their own nature. This need we may call self-actualization.”

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Author:Abraham Maslow

“Night and gin and music-the right setting for peeling off the thin clinging layers of bullshit and finding one's way down closer to the essential self.”

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Author:John D. MacDonald

“Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.”

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Book:Music is my mistress

Source: Music is my mistress

“I never have a realistic sense of self. I either think everything I do is terrible and I'm the worst guy on the planet, or from time to time I'll think I'm the greatest gift to music and the coolest guy who ever lived, but that happens maybe an hour out of the week. Some days I'm more concerned with how my hair looks than what my guitar sounds like.”

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Author:Dave Navarro