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Music was my way of keeping people from looking through and around me. I wanted the heavies to know I was around.

— Bruce Springsteen

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These are all existential threats to our democracy and our American way of life.

Is a dream a lie if it don't come true
Or is it something worse?

This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's what you live for.

We're here to re-dedicate you to The Power, The Passion, The Mystery, and The Ministry of Rock and Roll.

I don’t think anybody truly knows where we’re going from here yet. It depends on too many unknowns.

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The emphasis of study upon a particular aspect of music is in itself ideological because it contains implications about the music's value.

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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

Thomas Carlyle Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827)

Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.

Eduard Hanslick

Above the pitch, out of tune, and off the hinges.

François Rabelais Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)

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