"I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot."

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"I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot."

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"Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves them at an imaginary level."

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"I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you."

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"It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have certain political views, he has to be careful not to have his hands tied."

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"All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy."

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"One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently."

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"If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious."

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"Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing."

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"My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor."

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"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."

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"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."

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"You can cage the singer but not the song."

Harry Belafonte, American Musician

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"For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

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"Music reveals the deepest beauty of the soul."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"We could argue about what constitutes the creepiest line in pop music, but for me it's early Beatles- John Lennon, actually- singing 'I'd rather see you dead, little girl, than to be with another man."

Stephen King, American Author

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"Music fills the void between the heart and soul and connects them in heavenly delights."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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