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• When I started out, I preferred to watch my films without music, as its presence tends to mask the underlying pace of the film. I felt I could feel the rhythm of the film better without music to influence me.

  Paul Hirsch

  Watches, Pace, Influence

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• When I get depressed, or anything, I go 'think of all the music I haven't even heard yet!' So, it's the one thing. Imagine the world without music. Man, just hand me a gun, will you?

  Jim Jarmusch

  Gun, Men, Thinking

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• Life without music is only error, exhaustion, exile... Indeed, there is nothing that concerns me more than the fate of music.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fate, Errors, Music Is

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• For a long time, I would write without music, because I thought it was distracting until I appreciated that it actually unlocks a certain unconscious productivity vault in my mind.

  John Hodgman

  Writing, Long, Mind

  "John Hodgman's songs for Ragnarok, the end of days". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. November 2, 2012.

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• Music. I could not go without that. My mind would not let me be without music. I hiked the trail in 1995 - before there were iPods or music on our cell phones or even cell phones. So I was truly out there with just my thoughts. After a few days there was a continuous loop of songs playing silently in my mind.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Song, Phones, Cells

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I had been playing since I was 2 years old, never remembering a life without music, always playing everything naturally and mostly by ear, and all the grownups wanted were more scales and drudgery out of me.

  Lara St. John

  Years, Remember, Scales

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• It will affect me in ways I can't even begin to get my mind around. This day is a dark crater. There is no room for songs. The songs are wrong. Every song is wrong. And I don't know what to do without music.

  David Levithan

  Song, Dark, Mind

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• Metaphysicians are musicians without musical ability.

  Rudolf Carnap

  Musical Ability, Musician, Musical

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• I cannot live or write without music. It stimulates the normally dormant parts of my brain that come in handy when constructing fiction.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Writing, Brain, Fiction

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• I'd kill myself without music. Immediately. Life is pointless without music for me.

  Matthew Healy

  Life Is, Pointless

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• When I was sixteen, I danced before an audience without music. At the end someone suddenly cried 'its Death and the Maiden'. But that was not my intention; I was only endeavoring to express my first knowledge of the underlying tragedy in all seemingly joyous manifestation. The dance according with my comprehension, should have been called 'Life and the Maiden'.

  Isadora Duncan

  Dance, Should Have, Tragedy

  Isadora Duncan (1972). “My Life”, Liveright Publishing Corporation

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• Baseball is meant to be a contemplative game. They play music to draw young people to the game. If young people can't come to the game without music, then they should stay home.

  W. P. Kinsella

  Baseball, Home, Games

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• A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.

  Axel Munthe

  Book, Men, Long

  Axel Munthe (1930). “The Story of San Michele”

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• We often feel sad in the presence of music without words; and often more than that in the presence of music without music.

  Mark Twain

  Sad, Music, Feels

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.309, Courier Corporation

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• Times of my life, brief periods without music, have completely felt dangerously over the edge.

  Squarepusher

  Periods, Time Of My Life, Over The Edge

  "Plastic Man". Interview with Marc Weidenbaum, disquiet.com. October 14, 2001.

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• Nietzsche said without music, life would be a mistake. To me, without books, life would be a mistake.

  Ernest Gaines

  Mistake, Book, Would Be

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• Baseball is an art! A drama! A ballet without music! Let us give it a Greek chorus!

  Deborah Wiles

  Baseball, Art, Drama

  Deborah Wiles (2016). “The Aurora County All-Stars”, p.158, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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