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“Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.”

“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.”

“My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.”

Simple Music Crime Stupid Stupidity Cruelty Oppression Loathing Political Oppression

Book:Strong opinions

Source: Strong opinions

“Magic exists. Who can doubt it, when there are rainbows and wildflowers, the music of the wind and the silence of the stars? Anyone who has loved has been touched by magic. It is such a simple and such an extraordinary part of the lives we live.”

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Book:Charmed: The Donovan Legacy

Source: Charmed: The Donovan Legacy

“The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.”

Seems Beautiful Simple Music Exciting Complexes Rhythm Inevitable Unexpected Melody

Author:W. H. Auden

“Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.”

“Anyone who understands Jazz knows that you can't understand it. It's too complicated. That's what's so simple about it.”

Knows Simple Music Jazz Complicated

Author:Yogi Berra

“A day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music - that would be rest.”

Love Book Would Be Simple Music Doors Good Book Simple Food

Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“Trained as a musician, [photographer Ansel] Adams understood the richness of variation that could be unfolded from a simple theme.”

Simple Music Musician Understood Photographer Theme Variation Richness

Author:John Szarkowski