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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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Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better. – Samuel Butler

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Death
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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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I have so many opinions about everything it just comes out during my music. Its a battle for me. I try not to be preachy. Thats a real danger. – Neil Young

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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead. – Igor Stravinsky

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Music

Once music ceases to be ephemeral – always disappearing – and becomes instead material… it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time. – Brian Eno

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Music

But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of. – Gabriel Marcel

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A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers. – Friedrich August von Hayek

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You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them. – Laura Carmichael

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Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future. – Robert H. Schuller

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The president strongly believes that marriage in this country ought to be between a man and a woman. He also believes it is something that ought to be decided by the people. He doesnt believe that judges ought to impose their will on the people. – Ken Mehlman

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