"I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music."

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"I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music."

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"At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music."

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"My cameraman and I devised a method, which we started using from my second film, which applies mainly to day scenes shot in the studio, where we used bounced light instead of direct light. We agreed with this thing of four or five shadows following the actors is dreadful."

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"It was only after Pather Panchali had some success at home that I decided to do a second part. But I didn't want to do the same kind of film again, so I made a musical."

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"When I write an original story I write about people I know first-hand and situations I'm familiar with. I don't write stories about the nineteenth century."

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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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"Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything."

Plato, Greek Philosopher

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"I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better."

William Faulkner, American Novelist

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"Music in the soul can be heard by the universe."

Lao Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

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"Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God."

Martin Luther, German Leader

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"Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows."

Napoleon Bonaparte, French Leader

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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, American Author

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"Music fills the infinite between two souls."

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"I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz."

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"Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below."

Joseph Addison, English Writer

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