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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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One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once. – Samuel Butler

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Every mans work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. – Samuel Butler

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It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most. – Harry Connick, Jr.

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I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap. – Sting

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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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Music is the soundtrack to the crappy movie that is my life. – Chris Rock

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As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government. – Theodore Bikel

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