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Oscar Peterson

Jazz Pianist

“I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea.”

Believe Ideas Music

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Lewis Thomas

Physician, Author

“We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over the literature; we play the music; we change our minds; we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.”

Music Change Unique

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Albert Einstein

Physicist

“I see my life in terms of music.”

Inspirational Spiritual

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Karl Lagerfeld

Fashion Designer, Photographer

“Music gives color to the air of the moment.”

Air Music

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John Keats

Poet

“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.”

Spiritual Sweet Music

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Nina Simone

Singer, Songwriter, Pianist

“Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.”

White Music

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Jim Morrison

Musician, Poet

“I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.”

Believe Music

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Ralph Ellison

Novelist, Essayist

“The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstance whether created by others or by one's own human failings. They are the only consistent art in the United States which constantly remind us of our limitations while encouraging us to see how far we can actually go. When understood in their more profound implication, they are a corrective, an attempt to draw a line upon man's own limitless assertion.”

Men Art Music

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Samuel Butler

Novelist, Poet, Essayist

“Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.”

Inspirational Motivational Music

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Langston Hughes

Poet, Novelist

“Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.”

Life Music Death

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James Joseph Sylvester

Mathematician

“May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason? The musician feels mathematics, the mathematician thinks music: music the dream, mathematics the working life.”

Thinking Dream Music

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Freddie Mercury

Musician, Singer

“We're a very expensive group; we break a lot of rules. It's unheard of to combine opera with a rock theme, my dear .”

Rocks Music Groups

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