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“Music stays in the air. / It travels at the speed of breath / at the sound of light. / It is never not heard. / It can wait centuries if it has to.”

Ifs Light Waiting Sound Music Heard Air Century Breaths Speed

Book:Don't Explain: A Song of Billie Holiday

Source: Don't Explain: A Song of Billie Holiday

“If my extensive collection of all 53 Now That’s What I Call Music compilations is any indication, I am both qualified and honored to join Ludacris in hosting this amazing show that spotlights the best music and artists of the year. I had so much fun hosting the Billboard Music Awards last year and I can’t wait to be back!”

Ifs Years I Can Shows Lasts Artist Fun Waiting Music Collections Awards Last Year Honored Qualified Indication Spotlight Billboards Compilation

Author:Chrissy Teigen

“Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later.”

Giving Children Used Waiting Parent Music Rocks Grew Industry Authority Grew Up Entertainment Silver Entertainment Industry Silver Platter

Book:Closing of the American Mind

Source: Closing of the American Mind

“The whole thing of being in music is not to control it but to be swept away by it. If you're swept away by it you can't wait to do it again and the same magical moments always come.”

Ifs Whole Moments Waiting Music Music Is Jazz Musical Jazz Music Swept Away Magical Moments

Author:Bobby Hutcherson

“Where human eyes have never seen, where human beings have never been, I build a world of abstract dreams, and I wait for you.”

World Humans Dream Eye Waiting Human Beings Music Jazz Musical Abstract Human Eyes

Author:Sun Ra

“I listen to the summer symphony outside my window. Truthfully, it's not a symphony at all. There's no tune, no melody, only the same notes over and over. Chirps and tweets and trills and burples. It's as if the insect orchestra is forever tuning its instruments, forever waiting for the maestro to tap his baton and bring them to order. I, for one, hope the maestro never comes. I love the music mess of it.”

Ifs Order Waiting Music Forever Summer Window Instruments Notes Mess Tunes Melody Insects Orchestra Symphony Tweet Tuning Baton Maestro Trill

Book:Love, Stargirl

Source: Love, Stargirl

“It was as though we were a picture, trapped in time: this had been happening for hundreds of years, people sitting in a room, waiting for dinner, and listening to the blues.”

People Years Waiting Rooms Music Listening Happenings Sitting Dinner Trapped Blues Music

Author:James A. Baldwin

“I thought I was the only one who still enjoyed his record collection, but after reading 'How Records Got Their Groove Back,' I happily discovered I was wrong. There is something familiar about my old vinyl. Call it nostalgia, but I don't care for the 'purity' of CDs. They have no personality! The crackle and pop of the stylus on a record player as you wait for the music to begin creates an anticipation that CDs simply can't provide.”

Stills Care Reading Waiting Music Records Player Personality Don't Care Pops Nostalgia Familiar Enjoyed I Don't Care Purity Collections Anticipation Cds Groove Vinyl Record Players

Author:Anthony Pilla

“For me, songwriting is something that I have to do ritually. I don't just wait for inspiration; I try to write a little bit every day.”

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Author:Sean Lennon

“I think actors are at the mercy of the opportunities presented to them. So you kind of have to wait for them to choose you. My music is insular - I can choose that.”

Thinking Kind I Can Actors Opportunity Waiting Music Music Is Mercy

Author:Dwight Yoakam

“I don't find the songs; they find me. I just strum my guitar and wait for a lyric to come.”

Song Waiting Music Guitar Find Me

Author:James Taylor