Black & White Portraits and Quotes About Music

"...a song is something you write because you can't sleep unless you write it." -Joe Strummer

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"One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves and blizzards would be at one's throat all the sooner." -David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

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"Without music, life would be a mistake." -Friedrich Nietzsche

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"I immerse myself in sound. I see the world in sound. I want life to be a never-ending toga party of primitive noise. I have scoured this god-forsaken, greasy marble with a ravenous appetite, searching for the goods - the goods being violent sounds of the wildest variety." -John Reis

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"Music is...a higher revelation than all Wisdom and Philosophy." -Ludwig van Beethoven

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"The only truth is music." -Jack Kerouac