I have no use for cranks who despise music, because it is a gift of God. Music drives away the Devil and makes people joyful; they forget thereby all wrath, unchastity, arrogance, and the like. Next after theology, I give to music the highest place and the greatest honor.

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If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don’t back down. – Eminem

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When you're happy. You enjoy the music, but when you're sad. You understand the lyrics. ― Frank Ocean

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A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain. -Robert Frost

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Opera should be a place for art forms to meet. I've worked a lot with Peter Gabriel; his music isn't operatic, but he creates big, popular gatherings to which architecture, dance, and music are all invited. - Robert Lepage

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You are the music while the music lasts.

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We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

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All my favorite artists were pretty serious in the sense that their music was something I could sink my teeth into, from Peter Gabriel to U2 to these artists that made me want to read the lyrics and dig into it. - Ed Kowalczyk

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To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose.

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I am in love with old school funk and soul music. That's what I grew up listening to, and I want to bring that style back with my music. I love artists like Stevie Wonder, Donna Summer, Aretha Franklin, Michael Jackson, Earth, Wind, & Fire, Bruno Mars, Justin Timberlake, and more! - Raini Rodriguez

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