"Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die."
-Mel Brooks
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"Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love."
-Mel Brooks
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"Humor is just another defense against the universe."
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"I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front."
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"Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive."
-Mel Brooks
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"Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said."
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"Without music, life would be a mistake."
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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"If music be the food of love, play on."
-William Shakespeare
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"Love is a friendship set to music."
-Joseph Campbell
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"Develop an interest in life as you see it the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself."
-Henry Miller
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"My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary."
-Martin Luther
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"Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul."
-Johann Sebastian Bach
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