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Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance...

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance… poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music. – Ezra Pound

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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. – Ezra Pound

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The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people. – Ezra Pound

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Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barbers wax dummy is to sculpture. – Ezra Pound

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Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense. – Joseph Addison

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Im just lucky because my kids are grown-up – I love them, very proud of them, and we are in close contact as big-time friends, but they dont need me that much now and I can actually enjoy this wonderful world of music. – Robert Plant

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Music will always be a part of my life. I love music and I dont care how many units I sell. – Alanis Morissette

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If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings. – Billy Joel

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