"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."
― Maya Angelou
Topic(s): Music
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More In Music
- "Music is being treated as one big karaoke machine."― Robin Gibb
- "For that reason you can’t write with music playing, and anyone who says he can is either writing badly, or not listening to the music, or lying. You need to hear what you’re writing, and for that you need silence."― Philip Pullman
- "In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me."― Billy Corgan