Quotes with music

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  • James Agee If music be the breakfast food of love, kindly do not disturb until lunch time.
    Agee on Film: Criticism and Comment on the Movies (1958)
    James Agee
    American novelist, journalist, poet, screenwriter and film critic (1909 - 1955)
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  • William Shakespeare If music be the food of love, play on.
    Twelfth Night I, 1
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Oscar Wilde If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Billy Higgins If somebody would come and they're not playing music, they would encounter certain people on another level.
    Billy Higgins
    American jazz drummer (1936 - 2001)
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  • Bert McCracken If there is a God, he or she or it or whatever higher power there is is behind us so long as we're using our music in an inspirational way. I'm here for a reason, and I was given a talent, so I'll continue to try to use it.
    Bert McCracken
    American singer (1982 - )
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  • B. B. King If there was no ladies, I wouldn't wanna be on the planet. Ladies, friends, and music - without those three, I wouldn't wanna be here.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • A. R. Ammons If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'
    A. R. Ammons
    American poet (1926 - 2001)
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  • Carine Roitfeld If you are a reader of 'Harper's Bazaar,' to me, you are a woman who loves fashion, but not just fashion; you love fashion, you love travel, you love art, you love music.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Bill Bryson If you can imagine a man having a vasectomy without anesthetic to the sound of frantic sitar-playing, you will have some idea what popular Turkish music is like.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Billie Holiday If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.
    Billie Holiday
    American jazz musician and singer-songwriter (1915 - 1959)
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  • Bryn Terfel If you have a recital to do, you have to memorize the songs. I never use music when I do recitals. It produces an instant barrier, both for yourself and the audience.
    Bryn Terfel
    Welsh bass-baritone opera singer (1965 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Billy Joel If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings.
    Billy Joel
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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  • Billie Holiday If you think dope is for kicks and for thrills, you're out of your mind. There are more kicks the fuck to be had in a good case of paralytic polio or by living in an iron lung. If you think you need stuff to play music or sing, you're crazy. It can fix you so you can't play nothing or sing nothing.
    Lady Sings the Blues
    Billie Holiday
    American jazz musician and singer-songwriter (1915 - 1959)
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  • Bobby Short If you try to do that in pop music - to play only rare show tunes, for example - people don't come.
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  • Buck Owens If you want me in the Hall of Fame put me in because of some contributions that I have made to country music.
    Buck Owens
    American musician, singer, songwriter (1929 - 2006)
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  • Aaron Copland If you want to know about the Sixties, play the music of The Beatles.
    Aaron Copland: the Life and Work of an Uncommon Man
    Aaron Copland
    American composer and writer (1900 - 1990)
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  • Richard Nixon If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • Bryan Adams If your music is great, you will have fans, not because you have spent time chatting on social media.
    Bryan Adams
    Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer and guitarist (1959 - )
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  • Bjork In '96, I was in a very specific place with my own music - I was only listening to beats. You would come to my house, and I would just play beats all day.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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