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Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘music’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.” -Elton John
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“Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.” -Doug Coupland
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“In memory everything seems to happen to music.” -Tennessee Williams
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“I love music. It’s freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.” -Ice Cube
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“Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.” -Gottfried Leibniz
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“Music is amazing. There’s some metaphysical comfort where it allows you to be isolated and alone while telling you that you are not alone… truly, the only cure for sadness is to share it with someone else.” -Wayne Coyne
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“A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!” -Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“I listened, motionless and still And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.” -William Wordsworth
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“Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.” -George Eliot
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“Listen to your inner-voice: Surround yourself with loving, nurturing people. Fall in love with your art and find yourself. Music is the great communicator.” -Glenn Hughes
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“Music is the melody whose text is the world.” -Arthur Schopenhauer
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“I don’t like country music, but I don’t mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means ‘put down’.” -Bob Newhart
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“Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.” -Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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“I enjoy all forms of music – pop, classical and opera.” -Stephen Hawking
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“Medicine to produce health must examine disease and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.” -Plutarch
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“Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn’t. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.” -Marilyn vos Savant
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“Music makes us want to live. You don’t know how many times people have told me that they’d been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That’s the power music has.” -Mary J. Blige
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“Music for me, it demands full concentration.” -Paulo Coelho
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“Music fills the infinite between two souls.” -Rabindranath Tagore
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“Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run. I like to make people stop and say, ‘I’ve never seen anyone run like that before.’ It’s more than just a race, it’s a style. It’s doing something better than anyone else.…
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“It is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.” -Honore de Balzac
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“I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.” -Pope John Paul II
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“Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.” -Henny Youngman
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“If you talk bad about country music, it’s like saying bad things about my momma. Them’s fightin’ words.” -Dolly Parton
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“A ‘scream’ is always just that – a noise and not music.” -Carl Jung
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“Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.” -William Blake
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“Music is what I breath, what I love to do. It keeps me alive.” -Miley Cyrus
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“Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.” -George Jean Nathan
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“Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.” -Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.” -Plato
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“Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.” -Martin Luther
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“Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.” -Thomas Carlyle
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“Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there’s no fitting into it now.” -Bob Dylan
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“Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.” -Groucho Marx
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“The martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth.” -Frank Sinatra
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“It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.” -Walter Lippmann
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“A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what’s behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.” -Stanley Kubrick
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“The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music.” -Michael Jackson
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“My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I’d play ’em over and over.” -Clint Eastwood
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“Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.” -Napoleon Bonaparte
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“The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.” -H. L. Mencken
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“Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.” -Henry Ward Beecher
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“Music makes me high on stage, and that’s the truth. It’s like being almost addicted to music.” -Jimi Hendrix
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“By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.” -Thomas Merton
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“What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.” -Soren Kierkegaard
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“It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.” -Steve Jobs
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“Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.” -Mary Kay Ash
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“Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night.” -A. J. McLean
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“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.” -Abraham Maslow
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“My skin is hard when it comes to my music. But with my movies, I’m still a virgin in a lot of ways. I’m not used to being shot down for no reason.” -Will Smith
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“If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that… I believe in what I do, and I’ll say it.” -John Lennon
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“I’ve accomplished enough with the music that I haven’t had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.” -Eminem
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“When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?” -Khalil Gibran
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“There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.” -Albert Schweitzer
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“I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.” -Robert Frost
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“I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable.” -Tupac Shakur
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“Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.” -Bill Cosby
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“Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.” -Albert Camus
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“My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.” -Bob Marley
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“The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.” -William Shakespeare
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“Music’s not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him.” -Charlie Byrd
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“Music’s staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.” -Gary Wright
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“It’s amazing to hear, as a voice matures and then starts to decline, what kind of emotion is still conveyed by a really good vocalist.” -Tom Wopat
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“When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.” -Henry David Thoreau
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“He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.” -Albert Einstein
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“Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.” -Ronald Reagan
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“The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.” -Marcus Aurelius
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“If one plays good music, people don’t listen and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.” -Oscar Wilde
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“Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there.” -Judith Viorst
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“The real art of conducting consists in transitions.” -Gustav Mahler
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“Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.” -Bryan Ferry
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“Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.” -Robert Browning
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“I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.” -Sarah McLachlan
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“Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.” -Pablo Casals
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“Music is always changing and the changes are unpredictable.” -Billy Sheehan
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“I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.” -Gary Cherone
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“There’s a lot of music that sounds like it’s literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.” -Aimee Mann
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“I’ve never missed a gig yet. Music makes people happy, and that’s why I go on doing it – I like to see everybody smile.” -Buddy Guy
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“My music, my songs are 100 percent inspired by girl power.” -Paulina Rubio
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“That was when I realised that music is the most profound, magical form of communication there is.” -Lesley Garrett
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“You know, all my songs are relatives, brothers, sisters, cousins.” -David Coverdale
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“Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It’s equally humbling and uplifting.” -Michael Stipe
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“Times were changing. Clothes were changing. Morals were changing. We went from romantic loves songs like I used to do to rock ‘n roll. Now that has changed to rap. So, there’s always a new generation with new music.” -Bobby Vinton
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“It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created.” -Bruce Beresford
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“Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.” -Martin Mull
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“There’s nothing like music to relieve the soul and uplift it.” -Mickey Hart
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“I don’t care much about music. What I like is sounds.” -Dizzy Gillespie
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“I asked my daughter when she was 16, What’s the buzz on the street with the kids? She’s going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren’t into Kiss. But they’ve all been told that it’s the greatest show on Earth.” -Ace Frehley
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“Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.” -Edgar Winter
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“Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.” -Isaac Stern
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“I think its so cool that you can pick up the guitar and create something that didn’t exist 5 minutes ago. You can write something that no ones ever heard before. You have music at your fingertips.” -Michelle Branch
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“My father used to sing to me in my mother’s womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.” -Yancy Butler
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“Composers shouldn’t think too much – it interferes with their plagiarism.” -Howard Dietz
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“I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play.” -Herb Alpert
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“I’ve said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.” -B. B. King
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“Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.” -John Ruskin
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“Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.” -Thomas Fuller
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“Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.” -Jean Paul
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“Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.” -William Congreve
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“It was my 16th birthday – my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do – write songs and sing them to people.” -Stevie Nicks
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“Where words fail, music speaks.” -Hans Christian Andersen
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“Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.” -Christian Nestell Bovee
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“Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.” -Herbie Hancock
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“The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.” -Duke Ellington
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“In music the passions enjoy themselves.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
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“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.” -Aldous Huxley
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“For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.” -Reba McEntire
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“It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.” -Benjamin Britten
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“Hell is full of musical amateurs.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” -Berthold Auerbach
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“If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.” -Richard M. Nixon
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“All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.” -Jean Cocteau
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“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.” -Maya Angelou
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“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.” -Victor Hugo
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“I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.” -Elvis Presley
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“The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.” -Taylor Swift
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