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"Sometimes if you have a talent, or people are noticing you enough, then you should really try to do as much as you possibly can with it." Jimi Hendrix

























"If you chase life, it has a habit of running away from you." Shaker Aamer












"Saying nothing is as loud as saying something" John Lennon






Writing songs is like writing books - you store little melodies / words / ideas etc in your mind library and fish them out when you need them. John Lennon







"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans". John Lennon








































































"When the tone of the music changes, the walls of the city shake" Plato, The Republic































































































































































"If I knew where good songs came from I'd go there more often." Leonard Cohen






























































































"They may be able to arrest a few people but they cannot arrest an idea". Member of Pussy Riot

PUSSY RIOT the Russian dissidents, feminist punk-rock collective






























Duke Orsino:

”If music be the food of love, play on,
Give me excess of it;”

Twelfth Night; Shakespeare 1601





















































































































































































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Victor Hugo:

Ce qu’on ne peut dire et ce qu’on ne peut taire, la musique l’exprime.

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.




























































































































































































































































































































































































































































"Love silence above all things" Isaac of Nineveh (7th century theologian)







































































































































































































































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