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Hip Hop Generation “captures the collective hopes and nightmares, ambitions and failures of those who would otherwise be described as “post-this” or “post-that.” ↗

— Jeff Chain in "Can't Stop Won't Stop A History of the Hip-Hop Generation "

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When it all comes true Just the way you planned It's funny but the bells don't ring It's a quiet thing. ↗

— Fred Ebb

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The heating systems composed works in the style of John Cage. ↗

— David Mitchell

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But wouldn't [the Spice Girls] have shown a little bit more solidarity if they had at least called themselves feminists? The feminist activist Jennifer Pozner was more dismissive,writing that it was "probably a fair assumption to say that 'zigazig-ha' is not Spice shorthand for 'subvert the dominant paradigm. ↗

— Marisa Meltzer

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This ground itself needs to be properly accounted for by that for which it accounts, that is, by the causation through the supremely original matter – and that is the cause as causa sui. This is the right name for the god of philosophy. Man can neither pray nor sacrifice to this god. Before the causa sui, man can neither fall to his knees in awe nor can he play music and dance before this god. ↗

— Martin Heidegger

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Virgin suicide What was that she cried? No use in stayin' On this holocaust ride She gave me her cherry She's my virgin suicide ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

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but the reason why the grave-digger made music must have been because there was none in his spade ↗

— Herman Melville

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I think of hip hop as a mass media, radio, MTV thing. It’s been extremely relevant over the last 10 years and rock music is just not anymore—-a tear rolls down my cheek as I say that. ↗

— Win Butler

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It's probable that in the artistic hierarchy birds are the greatest musicians existing on our planet. ↗

— Olivier Messiaen

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Oh, fuck it, I'm a monster, I admit it! ↗

— Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

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