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Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician's curse.

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A poet is a musician that can't sing. Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart, and some men's minds are woeful small targets. ...more

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He had a bright, reckless tenor that was always wandering off, looking for notes in the wrong places.

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Then I felt something inside me break and music began to pour out into the quiet. My fingers danced; intricate and quick they spun something gossamer ...more

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Music is a proud, temperamental mistress. Give her the time and attention she deserves, and she is yours. Slight her and there will come a day when yo...more

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Lord but I dislike poetry. How can anyone remember words that aren't put to music?

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Metal rusts, music lasts forever.

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You,” I said, “are sweet music in a distant room.

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Then I played the song that hides in the center of me. That wordless music that moves through the secret places in my heart. I played it carefully, st...more

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You will not find it in the words of poets or the longing eyes of sailors. If you want to know of love, look to a trouper's hands as he makes his musi...more

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Words cannot always do the work we need them to. Music is there for when words fail us.