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“Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do.”
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“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”
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“Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh... now you tell me what you know.”
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“Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.”
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“One thing he discovered with a great deal of astonishment was that music held for him more then just pleasure. There was meat to it. The grouping of sounds, their forms in the air as they rang out and faded, said something comforting to him about the rule of Creation. What the music said was that there is a right way for things to be ordered so that life might not always be just tangle and drift, but have a shape, an aim. It was a powerful argument that life did not just happen.”
― Cold Mountain
― Cold Mountain
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