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Music Quotes by Henry Miller
- An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
- Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures,…
- We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only.
- Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.
- I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page in it. We must…
- What are our conductors giving us year after year? Only fresh corpses. Over these beautifully embalmed sonatas, toccatas, symphonies and operas the public dance the…
- I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of…
- To sing you must first open your mouth. You must have a pair of lungs, and a little knowledge of music. It is not necessary…
- If I am against the condition of the world it is not because I am a moralist, it is because I want to laugh more.…
- I am a free man―and I need my freedom. I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion;…
- Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful…
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- I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them. — Louis Armstrong
- All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. — Louis Armstrong
- What we play is life. — Louis Armstrong
- If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know. — Louis Armstrong
- We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself. — Louis Armstrong