“Music is my life and my life is music.” · “Music is my life and my life is music. ......

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2015 “Music is my lifeand my life is music.”—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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“I just sort of try to be a good person;

try to write music that lifts people

and makes me feel good to sing.”

—Carole KingBorn February 9th, 1942New York City, New York



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“I think the arts are very important for children growing up”

—Stephen SchwartzBorn March 6th, 1948

New York City, New York



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“I have an unwavering and

compelling faith that a national music,

very beautiful and very American,

can come from the melting pot just as

the nation itself has done.”

—Florence Beatrice Price

Born April 9th, 1887Little Rock, Arkansas



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“Talent is only a starting point.”

—Irving Berlin

Born May 11th, 1888Tyumen, Russia



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“In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?”

—Igor Stravinsky

Born June 17th, 1882St. Petersburg, Russia



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“I have a whole world of ideas. I am only now starting my work.”

—Enrique Granados

Born July 27th, 1867Lleida, Spain



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2015 “This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.”

—Leonard Bernstein

Born August 25th, 1918Lawrence, Massachusetts



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“It has happened

more than once that a

composition has come to me,

ready-made as it were...”

—Amy BeachBorn September 5th, 1867Henniker, New Hampshire



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2015“...jazz must first of all tell a story that

anyone can understand.”

—Thelonious MonkBorn October 10th, 1917

Rocky Mount, North Carolina



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2015“To stop the flow of music

would be like the stopping

of time itself, incredible

and inconceivable.”

—Aaron Copland

Born November 14th, 1900Brooklyn, New York



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Scott Joplin(1868)

2015“All my life, I’ve been trying to catch the train of independent thinking, the train of following one’s own heart and forging one’s own path.”

—Bright ShengBorn December 6th, 1955

Shanghai, China



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“Music is my life and my life is music.” · “Music is my life and my life is music. ......

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