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

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Author:James Taylor

“Everyone gets frustrated and aggressive, and I'd sooner take my aggression out on a guitar than on a person.”

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Author:Paul Weller

“Music can change the world because it can change people.”

“A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.”

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Book:Real Frank Zappa Book

Source: Real Frank Zappa Book

“Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny.”

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Author:Frank Zappa

“Music is my higher power”

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Author:Oliver James

“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.”

Source: Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century

“There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.”

“If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.”

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Book:Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution

Source: Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution

“It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.”

“Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.”

“Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memories.”

Source: Epigrams of Oscar Wilde

“You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow. (Oscar trying to talk his way out of a speeding ticket)”

“Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician's curse.”

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Book:The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:

Source: The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:

“Once a musician has enough ability to get into a top music school, the thing that distinguishes one performer from another is how hard he or she works. That's it. And what's more, the people at the very top don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder.”

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Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.”

Source: Miscellany

“The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a hot night or something said long ago.”

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Author:Louis Armstrong

“Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician.”

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Book:Like Shaking Hands with God: A Conversation about Writing

Source: Like Shaking Hands with God: A Conversation about Writing

“Music is well said to be the speech of angels.”

Source: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished (first Time, 1839; Final, 1869)