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"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be."	Abraham Maslow
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."	Aldous Leonard Huxley
"Alas for those that never sing, But die with all their music in them!"	Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Chaos is a friend of mine."	Bob Dylan
"Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune."	Phillips Brooks
"Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music-the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself."	Henry Miller
"Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."	Samuel Butler
"Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts."	Rebecca West
"He who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once."	Robert Browning
"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."	Albert Einstein
"I always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music."	Aretha Franklin
"I call architecture frozen music."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland."	Woody Allen
"I don't know which will go first-rock 'n' roll or Christianity."	John Lennon
"I hate performers who debase great works of art; I long for their annihilation."	George Bernard Shaw
"I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win -- if you don't you won't."	Bruce Jenner
"I never have a realistic sense of self. I either think everything I do is terrible and I'm the worst guy on the planet, or from time to time I'll think I'm the greatest gift to music and the coolest guy who ever lived, but that happens maybe an hour out of the week. Some days I'm more concerned with how my hair looks than what my guitar sounds like."	Dave Navarro
"I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music."	George Eliot
"I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball."	Gerald Early
"If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well."	Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Abraham Maslow	Agnes de Mile	Albert Einstein
Aldous Leonard Huxley	Alfred A. Montapert	Angela Monèt
Aretha Franklin	Author Unknown	Benjamin Disraeli
Berthold Auerbach	Bob Dylan	Bruce Jenner
Dave Barry	Dave Navarro	Ed Gardner
Edgar Watson Howe	Eric Anderson	Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Geoffrey Latham	George Bernard Shaw	George Eliot
George Gordon Byron	Gerald Early	Giuseppe Mazzini
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Henry Ward Beecher	Henry Miller
Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]	Jim Davis	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
John Lennon	Joseph Addison	Julius Henry Marx
June Masters Bacher	Kahlil Gibran	Leonard Bernstein
Ludwig van Beethoven	Martin Luther King, Jr.	Maurice Druon
Oliver Wendell Holmes	Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.	Oscar Wilde
Phillips Brooks	Ralph Waldo Emerson	Rebecca West
Richard Milhouse Nixon	Robert Browning	Robert G. Ingersoll
Russell Lynes	Samuel Butler	Sidney Lanier
Stan Getz	Stephen	Susanne Millen
Thomas Carlyle	Tori Amos	Truman Capote
T.S. Eliot	Victor Hugo	Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
Walter J. Lippmann	Warren G. Bennis	William F. Buckley
William Shakespeare	Woody Allen