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“Then you've a hunch what the music meant . . . hunger and night and the stars.”

Night Stars Music Musician Hunger Hunches

Book:Robert W. Service: Selected Poetry and Prose

Source: Robert W. Service: Selected Poetry and Prose

“I think it's good if a song has more than one meaning. Maybe that kind of song can reach far more people.”

People Ifs Thinking Kind Song Stars Music Songwriting Music And Life

Author:Syd Barrett

“I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.”

Believe Pain I Believe Stars Responsibility Music Share Duty Musician Musical Reach Out

Author:James Taylor

“I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir.”

Stars Water Music Fame Add Instant Rock Star Superhuman Chameleon Death Star Timeless Music

Author:David Bowie

“When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star.”

Thinking Firsts Stars Music Pops Pop Stars

Author:David Bowie

“Music, of all the arts, stands in a special region, unlit by any star but its own, and utterly without meaning ... except its own.”

Art Stars Music Special Regions

Author:Leonard Bernstein

“Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars.”

Ifs Life Inspirational Stills Success Stars Music Economy Learning Missing Moon Entrepreneur Aspiration Graduation Missing You High Standards Aim High Goals And Objectives Shoot For The Moon

Author:Les Brown

“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.”

Life Inspirational Has Beens Stars Simple Silence Music Doubt Magic Positive Wind Extraordinary Touched Rainbow Wildflowers Magic Of Life

Book:Charmed: The Donovan Legacy

Source: Charmed: The Donovan Legacy

“The touch of an infinite mystery passes over the trivial and the familiar, making it break out into ineffable music... The trees, the stars, and the blue hills ache with a meaning which can never be uttered in words.”

Stars Music Break Mystery Tree Infinite Blue Familiar Hills Ache Break Out Ineffable

Book:Sadhana

Source: Sadhana

“I'm not a star. I'm just backing up the cats.”

Stars Music Cat Jazz Backing Up

Author:Jaco Pastorius

“When an opera star sings her head off? she usually improves her appearance.”

Funny Religion Stars Music Appearance Sarcastic Opera

Author:Victor Borge

“Even her hair, she thought, running her fingers impatiently through the damp golden brown ringlets that curled romantically around her face. A Botticelli angel, a boy in college once called her, begging her to let it grow. Right! That was all she needed: wild curls cascading down her back like a doomed Shakespearian virgin, or a rock star.”

Running Faces Stars Grows Music Boys Rocks College Hair Needed Angel Fingers Golden Brown Doomed Virgins Rock Star Begging Curls Damp Botticelli

Book:The Ghost of Hannah Mendes

Source: The Ghost of Hannah Mendes

“Each time my mother went psychotic, I hoped it would be the last time. Afterward she would tell me, 'I think that was the final episode. I think I had a breakthrough.' And I would believe-for a few months-that it was true. That she was back to stay. Maybe it was like having a rock star mother who was always on the road. Were there Benatar children? Did they sit around and wonder if their mom's Hell is for Children tour was going to be her last tour?”

Ifs Thinking Believe Children Would Be Lasts Mother Stars Wonder Music Hell Rocks Mom Months Finals Episodes Last Time Breakthrough Rock Star Psychotic

Book:Running with Scissors: A Memoir

Source: Running with Scissors: A Memoir

“Star quality: I don't know what it is, but I've got it.”

Knows Stars Quality Music Music Is Writing Music Musical Life Music Writing Unwritten Rules

Author:Noel Coward