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Births

• 1958 - Mitch Albom
• 1949 - Alan Garcia Perez
• 1939 - Robert A. M. Stern
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• All good music, whatever its date, is ageless – as alive and significant today as it was when it was written.

  Peter Warlock

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• Mike Patton is a genius… It is definitely the hardest music I’ve ever played.

  Dave Lombardo

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• Music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, and the date at which it was written has no significance whatever.

  Peter Warlock

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• I can understand how some people might resent me for having the audacity to continue playing music, but it’d take a lot more than that to stop me from doing it. I started Foo Fighters because I didn’t want to retreat.

  Dave Grohl

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• I travel the garden of music, thru inspiration. It’s a large, very large garden, seen?

  Peter Tosh

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• I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?

  Dave Grohl

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• I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.

  Dave Grohl

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• There weren’t a lot of career opportunities in crazy-fast hardcore punk, so you didn’t have a lot of ambition, just the love and passion to play music with your friends.

  Dave Grohl

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• Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that’s stripped down.

  Dave Grohl

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• When you’re thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the dark side.

  Dave Grohl

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• When I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine – it kinda sucks the life out of music.

  Dave Grohl

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• Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it’s just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it.

  Dave Grohl

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• No, there’s something about the sing-song cadence of children’s music that has its place in rock.

  Dave Grohl

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• I’d always loved poetry and I’d always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn’t thought of putting the two together until around that time.

  Bruce Douglas Cockburn

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  There was a lot more music than the size of the place would indicate.

  Bruce Douglas Cockburn

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• Good rock music always tends to be around.

  Dave Davies

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• Do you think Duke Ellington didn’t listen to Debussy? Louis Armstrong loved opera, did you know that? Name me a jazz pianist who wasn’t influenced by European music!

  Dave Brubeck

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• I knew I wanted to write on religious themes when I was a GI in World War II. I saw and experienced so much violence that I thought I could express my outrage best with music.

  Dave Brubeck

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• I do like Marylin Manson, actually. I think, he’s very talented and he did make some great music.

  Bruce Dickinson

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• Jazz isn’t dead yet. It’s the underpinning of everything in this country. Whether it’s a Broadway show, or fusion, or right on through classical music, if it’s coming out of the U.S., it’s not going to survive unless it’s got some jazz influence.

  Dave Brubeck

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