"There’s a very basic human, non-verbal aspect to our need to make music and use it as part of our human expression. It doesn’t have to do with body movements, it doesn't have to do with articulation of a language, but with something spiritual."
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John Williams, quoted from the E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial CD liner notes
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