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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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To himself everyone is an immortal. He may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead. – Samuel Butler

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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand. – Samuel Butler

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Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. Its inevitable. – Brian Eno

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I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, theres innocence contained in you but theres also innocence in the process of being lost. – Bruce Springsteen

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I think the drummer should sit back there and play some drums, and never mind about the tunes. Just get up there and wail behind whoever is sitting up there playing the solo. And this is what is lacking, definitely lacking in music today. – Buddy Rich

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Thats why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness. – Corita Kent

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Wealth unused might as well not exist. – Aesop

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