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People in music want you to play small so you can make them feel better. That’s why you see so many bands break up no matter how talented they are.

— Dorothy Masuka

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They want to know how someone like me, who hasn’t studied music, can understand it so well.

The way of my singing is message. You send a message: It’s love, it’s sadness, it’s everything.

I’m a child of every part of this continent.

I didn’t understand why I should be barred from that restaurant or being with that person.

A response to the daily experience of being harassed, grabbed and catcalled at in public.

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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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