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“I admire anyone who can come up with something original. But not originality alone, because there can be originality in stupidity, with no musical description of any emotion or any beauty the man has seen, or any kind of life he has lived.”

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Author:Charles Mingus

“I want to write a play. I'd like to do an original musical. I should probably put together a poetry collection.”

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Author:Neil Gaiman

“Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world.”

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Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“On the musical side, I always wanted to kind of carry on Pink Floyd's sound. You know, Pink Floyd always had such an original, creative and masterful sound, but there are no new albums. My thought was that there's a way to keep their sound alive.”

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Author:Corey Feldman

“Every individual nature has its own beauty. One is struck in every company, at every fireside, with the riches of nature, when he hears so many new tones, all musical, sees in each person original manners, which have a proper and peculiar charm, and reads new expressions of face. He perceives that nature has laid for each the foundations of a divine building, if the soul will build thereon.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

“Bob Moses, composer, drummer, poet, artist, conceptualizer, inspirer of people, has created a musical environment that is balanced between discipline and freedom, compositional design and spontaneous inspiration. A party with a purpose. This album is original, soulful, funny and very special. I hope a lot of people get as much enjoyment from it as I have.”

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Author:Gil Evans

“No matter how many scores I've written, the next project will hopefully be completely different. As hard as it is, I'm always trying to stay fresh, not repeat myself, and come up with original musical ideas and ways of scoring.”

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Author:John Keltonic

“In the scientific community you find competent teachers and original researchers, just as in the musical community you find many good performers but very few good composers.”

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Author:Mario Bunge

“I have to be very original and have a strong musical voice. I don't want to be a copycat of anybody.”

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Author:Hiromi

“Those original, black, spirited, defiant, rebellious musical masters. Chuck Berry was one of the first masters of Les Paul's new electric guitar; he pretty much laid down the gauntlet, and I don't think anybody's ever beat him since. Way before the British Invasion, I was tuned into the black guys that created the British Invasion. Without Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, Lightnin' Hopkins, Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry and the Motown hits, there would be no Beatles.”

“I do original songs in the style of other artists, where I try to learn all their musical idiosyncrasies and try to do something that sounds like them and yet is a bit more sick and twisted.”

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Author:Al Yankovic

“I was lucky enough to see the original cast of 'In the Heights.' This one blew my mind. The infusion of Latin, hip hop and rap with musical theatre, great storytelling and talent was a powerful combination to me during a time when I'd not been moved by much!”

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Author:Josh Young

“[The original Sister Act] is running all over the world now, on-stage as a musical. It lives!”

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Author:Whoopi Goldberg

“I was born in love with music. My mother is a singer, many of my aunts and uncles on my mother's side are musical, my grandparents sang and played blues piano. It's literally in my blood. My mother wrote an original song to teach me the days of the week.”

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Author:India.Arie

“There was no one near to confuse me, so I was forced to become original.”

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Author:Joseph Haydn

“Well, the way I play, I try not to be a 'repeater pencil', ya dig? Originality's the thing. You can have tone and technique and a lot of other things but without originality you ain't really nowhere. Gotta be original.”

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Author:Lester Young

“No one is original. Everyone is derivative.”

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Author:Sonny Rollins

“I'd love to do a modern-day musical that's full of original music. To get your contemporaries to sing and dance without looking foolish and for it to be transformational and magical and all those things a musical is supposed to be.”

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Author:Danny Boyle

“My chief virtue (or if you like, defect) has been a tireless lifelong search for an original, individual musical idiom. I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices.”

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Author:Sergei Prokofiev