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All Quotes by author - Chico Buarque

" Every time I drive into Rio from the airport, I see the city for the first time and think how strange it is. "

" Had I not become entangled with music, I would have become an author much earlier. "

" I'm an amateur. "

" I'm not a professional. Yet somehow, I manage to get away with it. "

" Most people know my music but will never read my books. "

" Music kind of kidnapped me for a while. "

" Some people thought I was using my popularity as a singer to sell my first novel. For others, it was almost a sacrilege: a practitioner of a minor art daring to enter the field of high art. "

" Whatever is original in my writing comes from my musical apprenticeship. I look for rhythm in words. I imagine words as if they were musical chords. Often I'll write something, read it, and find it musically unsatisfactory. There is a musical imperative in my choice of words. "

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