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There is a music for lonely hearts nearly always. If the music dies down there is a silence. Almost the same as the movement of music. To know silence perfectly is to know music. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

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For you can't hear Irish tunes without knowing you're Irish, and wanting to pound that fact into the floor. ↗

— Jennifer Armstrong

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It was a kind of sado-masochism. I would take the things that were painful to me and elevate them and, through the mantra of music, make them into a release. ↗

— Michael Gira

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There's that thing that can happen to you when you meet somebody and you don't consider them extraordinary at all and then they do something like play the cello or write amazing poetry or sing and suddenly you look at them completely differently. ↗

— Yvonne Prinz

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The air was stifling, but he liked it because it was stifling city air, full of excitingly unpleasant smells, dangerous music, and the distant sound of warring police tribes. ↗

— Douglas Adams

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When Rosencrantz asks Hamlet, "Good my lord, what is your cause of distemper? You do surely bar the door upon your own liberty, if you deny your grief to your friends"(III, ii, 844-846), Hamlet responds, "Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me! You would play upon me; you would seem to know my stops; you would pluck from my lowest note to the top of my compass; and there is much music, excellent voice, in this little organ, yet cannot you make it speak. 'Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me." (III,ii, 371-380) ↗

— William Shakespeare

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I miss the sound of your voice And I miss the rush of your skin And I miss the still of the silence As you breathe out and I breathe in ↗

— Matt Nathanson

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the grace is being able to like rock music, symphony music, jazz … anything that contains the original energy of joy. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

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He likes a day in the studio to end, he says, "when my knees are all skinned up and my pants are wet and my hair's off to one side and I feel like I've been in the foxhole all day. I don't think comfort is good for music. It's good to come out with skinned knuckles after wrestling with something you can't see. I like it when you come home at the end of the day from recording and someone says, "What happened to your hand?" And you don't even know. When you're in that place, you can dance on a broken ankle. ↗

— Tom Waits

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Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring it's memory. ↗

— Oliver Sacks

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