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Music rots when it gets too far from the dance. Poetry atrophies w

Music rots when it gets too far from the dance. Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music. – Ezra Pound

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The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy. – Ezra Pound

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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations. – Ezra Pound

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What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it. – Ezra Pound

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I didnt know much about him, and I wasnt a big country music fan. I listened to the Beatles and David Bowie, so I didnt know a lot about him. – Joaquin Phoenix

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We have been working with Habitat for Humanity and we have built eighty homes, 80% of which are being lived in by New Orleans musicians. It is called the Musicians Village and at the center is the Ellis Marsalis Center for Music. – Harry Connick, Jr.

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I dabbled in things like Howlin Wolf, Cream and Led Zeppelin, but when I heard Son House and Robert Johnson, it blew my mind. It was something Id been missing my whole life. That music made me discard everything else and just get down to the soul and honesty of the blues. – Jack White

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Since I was a kid, Ive had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues of the Fifties, West Coast music of the mid-Sixties – but Id never really touched on dark Americana. – Robert Plant

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