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~ It pains me to watch the human suffering taking place in the gulf region of my country. I will be reaching out to others within the music industry to join me in helping to bring relief and hope to these resilient people who have lost everything. ~

Michael Jackson

~ The collaboration with the musicians of the New York Philharmonic is sheer joy. The Orchestra is so professional, so prepared, so motivated. I float from day to day, concert to concert, masterpiece to masterpiece, supported by the sound of the New York Philharmonic. ~

Lorin Maazel

~ Flying is a lot like playing a musical instrument; you're doing so many things and thinking of so many other things, all at the same time. It becomes a spiritual experience. Something wonderful happens in the pit of your stomach. ~

Dusty McTavish

~ Music is always a commentary on society. ~

Frank Zappa

~ Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once. ~

Robert Browning

~ Music may be the activity that prepared our pre-human ancestors for speech communication and for the very cognitive, representational flexibility necessary to become humans. ~

Daniel J. Levitin

~ Education is more than Pisa. Particularly musical education. We also need education and training or more than reasons of usefulness and marketability ~

Johannes Rau

~ The good life on any river may... depend on the perception of its music, and the preservation of some music to perceive. ~

Aldo Leopold

~ One should write not unskillfully in the running hand, be able to sing in a pleasing voice and keep good time to music; and, lastly, a man should not refuse a little wine when it is pressed upon him. ~

Yoshida Kenko

~ I cried for madder music and for stronger wine, But when the feast is finished and the lamps expire, Then falls thy shadow, Cynara! the night is thine ~

Ernest Dowson

~ My secret ambition was always to provide music for animation films: something with an Indian theme, either a fairy tale or mythological tale or on the Krishna theme. I still have a very deep desire, but these sorts of chances dont always come. ~

Ravi Shankar

~ We always thought the Tom Tom Club could change to anything, but it acquired this image, which was cartoon animation and this real light-hearted dance music. ~

Tina Weymouth

~ At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music industry was actually changed by the Civil Rights Movement. ~

Bernice Johnson Reagon

~ Real folk music long ago went to Nashville and left no known survivors. ~

Donal Henahan

~ There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast. ~

Jean de la Bruyere

~ I'm a businesswoman. I am a music lover. I like for people to like my music. When you listen to top 40 radio, you hear pop stuff. You hear rock stuff. You hear all these different influences. ~

Lee Ann Womack

~ As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and privacy. ~

Shelley Berman

~ Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved. Drugs, movies where stuff blows up, loud parties -- all these chase away loneliness by making me forget my name's Dave and I live in a one-by-one box of bone no other party can penetrate or know. Fiction, poetry, music, really deep serious sex, and, in various ways, religion -- these are the places (for me) where loneliness is countenanced, stared down, transfigured, treated. ~

David Foster Wallace

~ Just relax, meditate or listen to music, sort of like a warrior before going into battle. Win the battle before you get there and then attack the canvas. ~

Moncy Barbour

~ The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me. ~

Marilyn Hacker

~ Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music. ~

Brian Eno

~ So she poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit. ~

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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