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Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts – as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit. – Herbert Spencer

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Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror. – Herbert Spencer

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The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is – a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter. – Herbert Spencer

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When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have. – E. W. Howe

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I like to comprehend more or less everything around me – apart from the creation of my music. Its an obsessive character trait thats getting worse. I dont switch the light on and off 15 times before I leave the room yet, but somethings going wrong. – Robert Plant

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I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders. – Brian Eno

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Rock n Roll came from the slaves singing gospel in the fields. Their lives were hell and they used music to lift out of it, to take them away. Thats what rock n roll should do – take you to a better place. – Meat Loaf

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