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- We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
- Arthur O'Shaughnessy, "Ode" (quoted in the film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory)
- I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilized music in the world.
- Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
- Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell.
- Dave Matthews, VH1 Special: Trey And Dave Go To Africa
- I still have a lot to learn - about the business, about music, and about myself. Its exciting.
- Britney Spears (1981 - )
- There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880), The Mill on the Floss, 1860
- Diplomacy without arms is like music without instruments.
- Frederick the Great (1712 - 1786)
- I learned in the last few years that it's really unhappy and really unsustainable to try and base your well being on something as arbitrary as record sale and critical acclaim and the interests of the public. All of those things are so fickle. So my approach now to music is I want to make records that I love, and I hope that other people love them, then that's OK.
- Moby, quoted on CNN.com, March 2005
- It just seem like musicians want to sell a few records and put out a perfume line, and I think it's so sad that there are so many musicians who don't want to change the world... Music has been so much more.
- Moby, quoted on CNN.com, March 2005
- If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted?
- George Carlin (1937 - 2008)
- The past slips from our grasp. It leaves us only scattered things. The bond that united them eludes us. Our imagination usually fills in the void by making use of preconceived theories...Archaeology, then, does not supply us with certitudes, but rather with vague hypotheses. And in the shade of these hypotheses some artists are content to dream, considering them less as scientific facts than as sources of inspiration.
- Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971), Poetics of Music in the Form - Six Lessons
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