Music Composition

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🇬🇧Anthony Burgess

Music

1917–1993

"The window opened gently and a still Autumn night entered cat-like. Edwin smelt freedom and London autumn – decay, smoke, cold, motor oil."

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🇮🇳Zakir Hussain (politician)

Politics

1934–2019

"Had your mother not been so well-organized, so simple, so virtuous and so resourceful, I would not have been what I am today."

"I wouldn’t wear a tie-dyed tee-shirt unless it was dyed with the urine of Phil Collins and the blood of Jerry Garcia."

"The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know."

"But don't panic. Base eight is just like base ten really — if you're missing two fingers."

"Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny."

"Dartmouth is the place I’ve devoted my life to, so it’s very sad to see this kind of decline in the intellectual strength of the institution."

"Without question, Steve is the best Broadway lyricist, past or present."

"One of the inescapable encumbrances of leading an interesting life is that there have to be moments when you almost lose it."

"It's funny how people are pickin' up on our music now, you know? I think it's wonderful that people like our music."

"And we’ll never be as young as we are right now"

"Chick Corea's Commencement Address at the Berklee College of Music"

"Anyone that beats fucking skins for a living has got to be somewhat weird."

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🇬🇧Harrison Birtwistle

Music

1934–2022

"I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it."

"It cannot be emphasized too strongly that art, as such, does not "pay," to use an American expression – at least, not in the beginning – and that the art that has to pay its own way is apt to become vitiated and cheap."

"It can't happen here" is number one on the list of famous last words."

"It’s just sex and violence, melody and silence."

"Music is a pastime, a relaxation from more serious occupations."

"Irving Caesar at the Internet Broadway Database"

"We're come from stars' cosmic nature, | now we are destroying the future."

🇮🇳Zakir Hussain (musician)

Music

1951–2024

"Every time you step out on to the stage, you learn something which helps you grow and be a better communicator. It’s not like you’re the master. You’re always a student."

"O primeiro disco do Rock'n Roll que ouvi foi 'The Girl Can't Help It', de Little Richard."

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