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Quote by Samuel Butler
It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music t

It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents. – Samuel Butler

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People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable. – Samuel Butler

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Style
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Samuel Butler
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All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. – Samuel Butler

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Excess
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I sing a mixture of everything from opera, folk music, Broadway. Its a mix of things. – Katherine Jenkins

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I think that a song, when it works, never mind a piece of long form music, even a song is something that speaks to itself but has a language all of its own, ideally. – Steve Hackett

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Ive never believed that pop music is escapist trash. Theres always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music. – Thom Yorke

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I found music to be the therapy of choice. – David Byrne

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Prudence keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy. – Samuel Johnson

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It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. – George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists

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Philosophy is nothing but common sense in a dress suit. – Author unknown

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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving oneself, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. – Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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