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Music explains itself...It is the road and it is the map that shows the road. It is both together. ↗

— Patrick Rothfuss

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There were no windows in the Stockholders' Records Section of the Treasurer's Department of the American Forge and Foundry Company. But the soft, sweet music from the loudspeaker on the green wall by the clock, music that increased the section's productivity by 3 percent, kept pace with the seasons, and provided windows of a sort for the staff. --"Bomar ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

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The key to happiness is to listen to campy Parisian music and smile at a bird. It hinges on insanity, but it works. ↗

— Erica Goros

#be-sane #be-silly #coping-strategies #joy #music

Music is the language spoken by angels. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Don't get me wrong I'd never say never 'Cause though love can change the weather No act of God can pull me away from you ↗

— Five for Fighting

#love #music-lyrics #change

I think music needs to be presented in a way so that kids can grasp songs, dances, simple music that's associated with some particular defining moment in human experience. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

#dances #defining #defining moment #experience #grasp

You know, they were returning to the language of the people and trying to use musical language, particularly as Copland did to create a musical language in which all Americans would feel that they had a stake. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

#copland #create #did #feel #had

My conception of New York City came from rap music. I envisioned it as a place where people shot each other on the street and got away with it; no one walked on the streets, rather people drove in their sports cars looking for nightclubs and for violence. ↗

— Ishmael Beah

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The finest music in the room is that which streams out to the ear of the spirit in many an exquisite strain from the little shelf of books on the opposite wall. Every volume there is an instrument which some melodist of the mind created and set vibrating with music, as a flower shakes out its perfume or a star shakes out its light. Only listen, and they soothe all care, as though the silken-soft leaves of poppies had been made vocal and poured into the ear. ↗

— James Lane Allen

#reading #music

The water was pure and cold and came out of the Apennines tasting like snow melted in the hands of a pretty girl. ↗

— Pat Conroy

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