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Quote by Gustave Flaubert
Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythm

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars. – Gustave Flaubert

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Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution. – Gustave Flaubert

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Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness nothing but faith, faith and freedom. – Gustave Flaubert

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Im prepared to spend the rest of my life playing clubs, if that means Im playing music that I believe in. – Billy Corgan

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I think ABBA have a pure joy to their music and thats what makes them extraordinary. – Bono

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Ive never missed a gig yet. Music makes people happy, and thats why I go on doing it – I like to see everybody smile. – Buddy Guy

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Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. Its equally humbling and uplifting. – Michael Stipe

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Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die. – Bill Cosby

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Our new Constitution is now established, everything seems to promise it will be durable; but, in this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes. – Benjamin Franklin, letter to Jean-Baptiste Leroy, 1789 November 13th

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Light is the symbol of truth. – James Russell Lowell

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