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But I'm not a saint yet. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm homosexual. I'm a genius. ↗

— Truman Capote

#alcoholism #confession #music

So, you can make me come, that doesn't make you Jesus. ↗

— Tori Amos

#music #precious-things #music

Am I the reason you breathe Or am I the reason you cry? ↗

— Saliva

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Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach. ↗

— Roberto Bolaño

#reading #music

For the first time, he heard something that he knew to be music. He heard people singing. Behind him, across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps, it was only an echo. ↗

— Lois Lowry

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Those who don't try never look foolish. ↗

— Stephen Schwartz

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It's like if the music is loud enough I won't be able to listen to my own thoughts. ↗

— Nic Sheff

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I'd wear any of my private attire for the world to see. But I would rather have an open flesh wound than ever wear a band aid in public. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#born-this-way #fashion #gagaklein #lady-gaga #music

The devil, the originator of sorrowful anxieties and restless troubles, flees before the sound of music almost as much as before the Word of God....Music is a gift and grace of God, not an invention of men. Thus it drives out the devil and makes people cheerful. Then one forgets all wrath, impurity, and other devices. ↗

— Martin Luther

#power-of-music #men

A motion picture, or music, or television, they have to maintain a certain decorum in order to be broadcast to a vast audience. Other forms of mass media cost too much to produce a risk reaching only a limited audience. Only one person. But a book. . . . A book is cheap to print and bind. A book is as private and consensual as sex. A book takes time and effort to consume - something that gives a reader every chance to walk away. Actually, so few people make the effort to read that it's difficult to call books a "mass medium." No one really gives a damn about books. No one has bothered to ban a book in decades. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

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