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var musquotes = 31;
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quotes[1] = "A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children.<br /><b>- Ian Anderson (jethro tull)</b>";
quotes[2] = "[on music] If you have to ask what it is you'll never really know.<br /><b>- Louis Armstrong (1901-1971)</b>";
quotes[3] = "Music washes away from the soul the dust of every day life.<br /><b>- Berthold Auerbach (1812-1882)</b>";
quotes[4] = "If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.<br /><b>- Sir James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937)</b>";
quotes[5] = "The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.<br /><b>- Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)</b>";
quotes[6] = "Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.<br /><b>- Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)</b>";
quotes[7] = "Without music, life is a journey through a desert.<br /><b>- Pat Conroy</b>";
quotes[8] = "[regarding the Beatles in 1962] We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.<br /><b>- Decca Recording Company</b>";
quotes[9] = "Music is my mistress, and she plays second fiddle to none. She is beautiful and gentle.... I look forward to her every gesture.<br /><b>- Duke (Edward Kennedy) Ellington (1899-1974)</b>";
quotes[10] = "You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note.<br /><b>- Doug Floyd</b>";
quotes[11] = "When words leave off, music begins.<br /><b>- Heinrich Heine</b>";
quotes[12] = "There are only twelve tones. You must treat them carefully.<br /><b>- Hindemith, Paul (1895-1963)</b>";
quotes[13] = "The history of a people is found in its songs.<br /><b>- George Jellinek</b>";
quotes[14] = "It [music] is the only sensual pleasure without vice.<br /><b>- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)</b>";
quotes[15] = "The life of the arts far from being an interruption, a distraction in the life of a nation, is close to the center of a nation's purpose -- and is a test of the quality of a nation's civilization.<br /><b>- John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963)</b>";
quotes[16] = "As long as we live, there is never enough singing.<br /><b>- Martin Luther (1483-1546)</b>";
quotes[17] = "Music is spiritual. The music business is not.<br /><b>- Van Morrison</b>";
quotes[18] = "Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.<br /><b>- Sergei Vassilievic Rachmaninovh (1873-1943)</b>";
quotes[19] = "The musician's art is to send light into the depths of men's hearts.<br /><b>- Robert Schumann (1810-1856)</b>";
quotes[20] = "In orchestrating the picture I avoided, as much as possible, the realistic sound of a large symphony orchestra. The motion picture soundtrack is an exquisitely sensitive medium, and with skillful engineering a simple bass flute solo, the pulsing of a bass drum, or the sound of muted horns, can often be more effective than half a hundred musicians sawing away.<br /><b>- Bernard Herrmann - film composer explaining his philosophy</b>";
quotes[21] = "The power of transformation is really what's at the heart of music...every musician has stood in awe of it, [Live concerts] were like a great elixir, a great power that we tapped into.<br /><b>- Mickey Hart (drummer)</b>";
quotes[22] = "You know, there's this place where a river runs into an ocean and the fresh water and the salt water all get mixed in together. And that's what America is all about, and that's what American music is about... everything that's come floating down the river.<br /><b>- T-Bone Burnett</b>";
quotes[23] = "We live in an age of form over content and style over substance. Anybody can make a slick sounding recording... today it's all production.<br />-<b>Don Henley</b>";
quotes[24] = "The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen.<br /><b>- Duke Ellington</b>";
quotes[25] = "How you play a note is just as important as what the note is. <br /><b>- Henry Kaiser</b>";
quotes[26] = "Jazz... can be seen as a sort of oral poetry in which performance is both creation and composition... Such performance insures maximal participation among players and dancers alike.<br /><b>- Marshall McLuhan</b>";
quotes[27] = "Music should go right through you, leave some of itself inside you, and take some of you with it when it leaves. <br /><b>- Henry Threadgill</b>";
quotes[28] = "A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.<br /><b>- Leopold Stokowski (1882-1977)</b>";
quotes[29] = "If you hit a wrong note, then make it right by what you play afterwards.<br /><b>- Joe Pass</b>";
quotes[30] = "Music is love in search of a word.<br /><b>- Sidney Lanier (1842-1881)</b>"; 
quotes[31] = "Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.<br /><b>- Charlie Parker</b>";
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