“These rules, the sign language and grammar of the Game, constitute a kind of highly developed secret language drawing upon several sciences… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Sadness is a poison that I refuse to drink Sorrow is a meal that I refuse to eat Pain is a word… — Flame Copy Share Image
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I posted a video a day for almost two months and was hardly sleeping, but I think it really pushed me to… — Kina Grannis Copy Share Image
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I like a lot of hardcore, but it's just a genre about which I don't have much to say. It's kind of… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
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God gave music the power to carry his light into the darkness. That’s a mighty privilege. It means intentionally telling stories and… — Andrew Peterson Copy Share Image
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“The government forbade the broadcast of this “decadent bourgeois music,” and Li Guyi, the first mainland singer to imitate Teresa Teng’s style,… — Xiaobo Liu Copy Share Image
It's been said and done Every beautiful thought's been already sung And I guess right now here's another one So your melody… — Unkown Copy Share Image
Electronic music was just discovery about sound, all our sound options. The core percussions and melodies, they forget about it, they didn't… — Patrick Watson Copy Share Image
I want my records to be the most magnificent and glorious-sounding records, but also want them to be the most intense and… — Jason Pierce Copy Share Image
The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
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Do anything you wanna do—but from [the heart]. Music is a thing from the heart, from the soul, just like anything else… — Hubert Sumlin Copy Share Image
Be who you are nothing more nothing less, and let the beauty that you love be the very best. Sing praises to… — Michael Franti Copy Share Image
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Flamenco is Arabic music and rhythms filtered through centuries of gypsies making music. The gypsies themselves came originally from India. And then… — Ottmar Liebert Copy Share Image
Facebook is fantastic because it gives me contact with my fans, but I feel like it's not about the music anymore -… — Anthony Gonzalez Copy Share Image
No one seeing a beautifully elaborated lyre with its harmonious, orderly arrangement, and hearing the lyre's music will fail to form a… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
I was playing in a band and was approached to score an independent film. I had never done it, but had written… — Douglas Pipes Copy Share Image
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