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Music is not written in red, white and blue. It is written in the heart's blood of the composer.


Nellie Melba

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SUZY KASSEM Red", I write "is the color of life. It's blood, passion, rage. It's menstrual flow and after birth....
MARY HOGAN The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a...
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VIKRAM SETH Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY It is written in my life-blood, such that it is, thick or thin; and I can no other.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow -- red, yellow, brown, black and white ...
JESSE JACKSON Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow-red, yellow, brown, black and white-and...
JESSE JACKSON Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood
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KELLY JONES Your flag and my flag, And how it flies today In your land and my land And half a world ...
WILBUR D. NESBIT One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face.
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE England! Whence came each glowing hue That hints your flag of meteor light,-- The streaming r...
GEORGE LUNT To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN In the beginning it was all black and white.
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DEAN CAVANAGH Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes ... We cannot understand it...
GALILEO GALILEI The mystery of the written word;It bequeaths a different meaning every blessed day.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Don't believe in everything that is written. Not everything that is written is true
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KARON WADDELL Of all writings I love only that which is written with blood. Write with blood: and you will discove...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I'm a composer, and therefore I know when I've written a good tune. When you've written ...
ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER When you grow up there are things that you would love to do make your father proud is one and have f...
GARY F EVANS... It is important for the musician to learn as much about the composer as possible and to study the mu...
VLADIMIR HOROWITZ Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters written...
BEVERLY NICHOLS We've been happy to accommodate them as long as we have, certainly we have to reopen the building.
SABRINA WRITTEN Your flag and my flag,
And how it flies to-day
In your land and my land
And half a wo...
WILBUR D. NESBIT The improvisational nature of jazz musicianship is such that a truly competent performer must be pre...
ALBERT MURRAY In the U.K., classical music is composed by individuals and written down. Indian music is based on c...
RAVI SHANKAR I'll probably always write film scores. It's the one place where a composer has almost unlim...
DAVID NEWMAN I have written symphonic poems and chamber music. It is my way of personal expression.
CARMINE COPPOLA It wasn't the tequila and oxy. You really are that fucking gorgeous.
ADRIAN PHOENIX The things i know now, i never knew then. I wish i knew.
SOTONYE ANGA This is one of the best concertos ever written for bassoon. Beauty of sound, beauty of technique. It...
ARNOLD IRCHAI I was red, white and blue before it was cool.
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IN THE MAKING Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.
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SUFJAN STEVENS Melody is an important part of all the music I've written. I think that's why it has been so success...
CHUCK MANGIONE I don't think it's written in the clouds, written in stone, written in the beach. Hillary is not goi...
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MATISYAHU Today A woman is one who tries to bring a man down. A man is one who has to keep that woman in check...
APURVA GAGLANI I don't believe in a hope chest of music. This is all new music that I've written over the last coup...
ANDREW HILL Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON First and foremost, telling historical stories is very tricky because it is something that is known....
ANTHONY HEMINGWAY If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best.
ROBERT SIAHAAN It is too easy to watch music coming out of people's mouths lately and you're not quite sure if it w...
JOHN MAYER Written in blood - and Bigotry may swell. The sail he spreads for Heav'n with blasts from hell!
EDWARD MOORE The law is not so much carved in stone as it is written in water, flowing in and out with the tide.
JEFF MELVOIN Concert repertoire is some of the most beautiful music ever written, and I frequently seek out oppor...
SUSANNA PHILLIPS The law of God, and also the way to life, is written in our hearts: It lieth in no man's supposi...
JAKOB BOHME Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes — I mean the universe —...
GALILEO GALILEI It takes one person to rewrite the history book.
J.R. RIM It's not written in the Constitution or anything else.... Congress, just out of the clear blue sky, ...
ADRIAN CRONAUER In Asia, red is the colour of joy; red is the colour of festivities and of celebration. In Chinese c...
VINCENT TAN It's not written in the Constitution or anything else.... Congress, just out of the clear blue s...
ADRIAN CRONAUER A Dutchman was explaining the red, white, and blue Netherlands flag to an American. "Our flag is sy...
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STEPHEN COLBERT People with red hair are supposed to get mad very easily,...,and he had very red hair.
J.D. SALINGER Our religion is the traditions of our ancestors - the dreams of our old men, given them in solemn ho...
CHIEF SEATTLE It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN Guy Gavriel Kay's 'Tigana' is, in my opinion, one of the best, if not the best fantasy n...
DAVID B. COE Philosophy [nature] is written in that great book which ever is before our eyes -- I mean the univer...
GALILEO GALILEI In the eleven months preceding the outbreak of World War II, 211 treaties of peace were signed. Were...
FULTON J. SHEEN A conductor, in giving a faithful reproduction and exact translation of the written notes, can re-cr...
CHARLES MUNCH the greatest single portfolio of songs ever written by any one person in the history of country musi...
HANK WILLIAMS ...the future is not written. It lies in the choices you make. Our future is ours to decide. Always.
MATT MYKLUSCH Law is twofold -- natural and written. The natural law is in the heart, the written law on tables. A...
SAINT AMBROSE The people who send us fan mail written in blood say the nicest things, so it doesn't freak us out t...
DAVEY HAVOK Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON Whenever you pull on the red, white and blue, it's a great feeling,
AL MONTOYA The music that is played on the radio all the time or written about in magazines has nothing to do w...
DWEEZIL ZAPPA Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. Well, 'The Wellspring' was written from 1983 to 1986. And it had a section in the beginning ...
SHARON OLDS The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there ...
WINSTON CHURCHILL As for my own music, I've never written a book about it. I'm not pedagogical... When I write...
SAMUEL BARBER Believe in your ability to create the future. That's what leaders do-that is our job. Understand rea...
MARK MILLER Each of us is a book waiting to be written, and that book, if written, results in a person explained...
THOMAS M. CIRIGNANO It is not deeds or acts that last: it is the written record of those deeds and acts
ELBERT HUBBARD Well-written words are music.
WILLIAM SHATNER Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.
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ED KIECZYKOWSKI No literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead.
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White like bone
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White like silence
Red like the...
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GARY F EVANS... The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.
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RICHARD H. BAKER Isn't it funny how red white and blue represent freedom, unless they're flashing behind you?
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MAICHEE SUMMER The history of intellectual progress is written in the lives of infidels
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth.
BROOKS ATKINSON Ultimately, I'm a fan of music. I describe writing music sometimes as hieroglyphics, like, you k...
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ENOCK MAREGESI During the whole period of written history, it is not the workers but the robbers who have been in c...
SCOTT NEARING No law ever written has stopped any robber, rapist or killer, like cold blue steel in the hands of t...
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