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The folk music of the various peoples is merely a different dialect of the same musical language.

Abstraction is the key to managing complexity in software design.

If it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art.

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts – such is the duty of the artist.

Computing is not just about machines; it's about empowering people to solve the world's problems.

My language is understood all over the world.

Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster.

I should be sorry if I only entertained them; I wish to make them better.

The end of all good music is to affect the soul.

Music is not an abstract art. It is a concrete art, because it is made of sounds, and sounds are concrete.

To be a musician is to be a communicator. You're communicating feelings and emotions and ideas, and that's what music is all about.

Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise.

I am a mighty hunter of birds, of women, and of good librettos.

My mission is to spread joy.

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

To be a revolutionary, you have to be a rebel. To be a rebel, you have to be an individual. To be an individual, you have to be yourself.

If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

I don't know what you're talking about. I'm James Brown. I'm the Godfather of Soul.

Rhythm is something you either have or you don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.