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"The soundscape reassures me of the endless possibilities in classical music and the question of borderless identities."

— Echezonachukwu Nduka

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"The liberation to which I refer is both personal and collective."

"African pianism is the point where Western classical music and African indigenous music converge."

"Whatever I wrote as a child were attempts to recreate what I read and imagined."

"Both worlds were there from the beginning, but music influenced my imagination first as a listener, long before I became a curious reader."

If any of my poems could literarily save a person’s life, I would be most amazed by both the poem and the person whose life it saved. That would be nothing short of a miracle!

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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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