Top 100 Quotes About Modern Music

#1. I did not want to be somebody who lived off his reputation. I wanted to continue to be part of the modern music scene.

Mick Rock

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#2. I find most modern country virtually unlistenable. I can't relate to the music or the lyrics.

Jenny Lewis

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#3. Music is a gut thing. You're working in a medium which is more in touch with the primal than the modern. A gig is a ritual. There's a congregation.

Siobhan Fahey

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#4. Somehow the world survived the Nazis, the atomic bomb, and modern music

Haruki Murakami

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#5. Modern church music is so constructed that the congregation cannot hear one distinct word.

Desiderius Erasmus

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#6. If you want to find the source of much of the music of modern day Russia, you will find it in the incredible compositions of that crazed lunatic Berlioz.

Ray Bradbury

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#7. He had a theory that musicians are incredibly complex, and know far less than other artists what they want and what they are; that they puzzle themselves as well as their friends; that their psychology is a modern development, and has not yet been understood.

E. M. Forster

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#8. I love music.. everything from R&B to Rap to Modern Country.. I still haven't figured out my own personal vibe.. it was sort of Nora Jones then sort of electronic.. then country.. it is very hard to make it in the music industry so we shall see if I ever find the time to finish it!

Amy Weber

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#9. Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Pietro Mascagni

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#10. All this machinery making modern music can still be open-hearted. Not so boldly charted, it's really just a question of your honesty.

Neil Peart

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#11. However, in modern conceptual frameworks there is a more sophisticated view. I would say that the act of music exists in several worlds simultaneously.

Robert Fripp

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#12. I had no idea of the historical evolution of the civilized world's music and had not realized that all modern music owes everything to Bach.

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

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#13. That's one of the good things about a lot of the young British bands, they are mixing all styles of music. I think that's very good because that's very modern.

Mick Jagger

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#14. There has been an effect of business rap on the output of today's rap music. But I don't think that's the modern day rapper's fault.

M.I.A.

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#15. Modern music is people who can't think signing artists who can't write songs to make records for people who can't hear.

Frank Zappa

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#16. There's always been good and bad music. Many composers hide behind modern music in order to not make music.

Pepe Romero

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#17. I am equally excited about the possibilities that music making holds for all people and it's ability to heal what seems to me a chronic imbalance in modern life.

Paul Winter

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#18. The technical history of modern harmony is a history of growth of toleration by the human ear of chords that at first sounded discordant and senseless to the main body of contemporary professional musicians.

George Bernard Shaw

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#19. The autonomy of art that emerged through Post-Impressionism, Cubism, Mondrian, and the Russian Constructivism had seen painting develop independent of imitations or decoration, and so the content of art became much closer to that of music.

Neville Weston

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#20. Modern culture anesthetizes the mind while mainlining the soul with emotional experiences that keep the worldling believing he is really living.

Jim Berg

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#21. I don't want to pooh-pooh modern pop. I appreciate that as well, but my personal favorite kind of music is guitar-based rock. I like grunge and garage bands and alternative music, but that's more my personal taste.

Al Yankovic

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#22. The fact remains that, if the supply of energy failed, modern civilization would come to an end as abruptly as does the music of an organ deprived of wind.

Frederick Soddy

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#23. We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience.

Brian Eno

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#24. To the seeker after the new, or the sensational, to those who expect a sinister frisson from modern music, it is my melancholy duty to point out that all the bomb throwing and guillotining has already taken place.

Constant Lambert

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#25. The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all.

Gavin Bryars

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#26. There was such a lack of modern, recognizable role models for a young girl in the 1950s. I mean, 'Leave It to Beaver' didn't speak to me. That's why I latched on to music.

Patti Scialfa

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#27. An accomplished woman is one who has a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing and the modern languages; she must be well trained in the fighting styles of the Kyoto masters and the modern tactics and weaponry of Europe.

Seth Grahame-Smith

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#28. The song 'Take This Job and Shove It' spent 18 weeks on the country charts in 1977. 1970s country music fans had a clearer understanding of the ennui of wage-slavery than modern elites.

Alex Pareene

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#29. With the Stray Cats at least, we really took the music somewhere else. First, we wrote our own songs. That's a real weak point in modern classics if you do rockabilly or blues.

Brian Setzer

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#30. In the beginning, I was so inspired by the music. I had the option to make something modern with classic undertones, but I wanted to make something that was exactly like that old sound.

Leon Bridges

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#31. What matters in modern music is not the part you can write down, the words and the tune, but the rest - the texture, the atmosphere, the references and associations.

Brian Eno

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#32. Copland was one of the first American composers to forge a truly modern style of American classical music while also making use of American popular music - including jazz.

Terry Teachout

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#33. Victoria liked music full of high passion and drama. "I am a terribly modern person," she decided.

Kate Williams

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#34. We live in a modern world, and in contemporary music the central fact is contamination. Not the contamination of disease but the contamination of musical styles. If you find this in me, that is good.

Ennio Morricone

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#35. DJing for people is fun until someone comes up with a phone screen that has 'PLAY SOME RIHANNA' written on it. I prefer to play older songs because they're the ones I personally enjoy dancing and singing along to and modern dance music bores my brains out.

Alexa Chung

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#36. How great musicians demonstrate a mutual respect and trust on the bandstand can alter your outlook on the world and enrich every aspect of your life, understanding what it means to be a global citizen in the most modern sense.

Wynton Marsalis

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#37. It's been really interesting watching people's reactions to the new music, to the old music and also watching how modern young people will be standing in front of something going on like live music, and there's a camera in front of their face.

Brandon Boyd

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#38. This is how early age people heard music, not through their ears above the cacophony of modern life but directly from the universe into their souls.

Bryan Islip

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#39. My music is not modern, it is merely badly played

Arnold Schoenberg

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#40. The time is probably not far distant when music will stand revealed perchance as the mightiest of the arts, and certainly as the one art peculiarly representative of our modern world, with its intense life, complex civilization, and feverish self-consciousness.

Hugh Reginald Haweis

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#41. Modern music and artistry would look and sound completely different if not for the groundbreaking contributions Michael Jackson gifted to the world.

L.A. Reid

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#42. There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy.

John Baldacci

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#43. I am quite certain in my heart of hearts that modern music and modern art is not a conspiracy, but is a form of truth and integrity for those who practise it honestly, decently and with all their being.

Michael Tippett

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#44. While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song.

David Antin

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#45. I grew up on Bach and Beethoven, and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since I'm constantly doing music, it's difficult to have that quality time to listen to music and do classical stuff.

A.R. Rahman

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#46. The part of modern pop music I don't know much about is hip hop.

James Mercer

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#47. There's good stuff going on in modern pop music, but a lot of it is really materialistic and only about money.

Joe Goddard

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#48. With my ninth mind I resurrect my first
and dance slow to the music of my soul made new.

Aberjhani

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#49. Modern recording has made it so that people can spend forever taking shortcuts and making everything uniform, but that strips music of what makes it exciting.

Zooey Deschanel

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#50. I'm not an anti-online person. I get what the modern world's about and I understand that that's the nature of music dissemination.

Tim Hecker

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#51. I grew up in the '90s. My goal isn't to be a '90s rapper, but I have little hints of '90s influence in my music. It's a modern approach to classic rap.

Action Bronson

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#52. I think people should be able to have at their behest, like, four hours of music, entertainment, visual knowledge, different pathways. That's what I'm trying to do with modern technology, not just another song and another song.

Jon Anderson

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#53. 85% of modern music doesn't have a damn thing to do with music. It has to do with looking good. Name me one woman on the top ten right now who isn't absolutely smoking hot. You think that's a coincidence?

Patrick Rothfuss

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#54. The new music, the bebop and modern jazz, wasn't music to him. It was choppy noise pretending to make music out of traffic jams.

Richard Flanagan

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#55. A lot of modern film scoring is about a lack of themes, so I try to find ways of using music that doesn't necessarily have thematic material in it to make the points when there is thematic material even stronger. It's cool to be able to combine old and new.

Joseph Trapanese

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#56. Lots of ballplayers have their own personal music blasted by the sound systems in modern ball parks.

George Vecsey

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#57. Van Morrison remains a singer who can be compared to no other in the history of modern popular music.

Greil Marcus

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#58. Great Music, it said, and Great Poetry would like quieten Modern Youth down and make Modern Youth more Civilized. Civilized my syphilised yarbles.

Anthony Burgess

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#59. I don't like modern country music. It's not what I'm into, is all. I'm old-school.

Shelby Lynne

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#60. Modern music is three farts and a raspberry, orchestrated.

John Barbirolli

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#61. I've spent a lot of time playing Bach partitas. One of my first jobs was to play for ballet and modern classes, so the music in 'Partita' is kind of like choreography for me.

Caroline Shaw

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#62. Like all tools, modern technology has produced some wonderful moments in music and also some horrors.

Hugh Hopper

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#63. The blues echoes right through into soul, R&B and hip hop. It's part of the make-up of modern music. You can't turn your back on the blues.

Ronnie Wood

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#64. I like musicianship, and it's quite lacking in most modern popular music. You're always safe with old Chicago, the Allman Brothers, Gov't Mule, or Tower of Power.

Mark Rippetoe

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#65. We have a history in country music of writing about the darker side of things - maybe not as much in modern times, but there's a lot of cheating and self-deprecation. We sort it out in song, in country music, as a genre.

Chris Stapleton

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#66. We all listened to a lot of recorded music, especially American jazz, modern jazz, and that's where our studies were and our inspiration came from.

Evan Parker

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#67. If I think about music in the future, I imagine it often as not involving electricity, in some dystopian, post-apocalyptic future. And that's what I get from Penderecki: people making music by taking these instruments out of boxes and playing them. That's a very bizarre and modern thing.

Jonny Greenwood

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#68. I guess, for me, what started me getting real excited about music was the New York punk and new-wave scene. All those bands looked back to the Velvet Underground and the Stooges and the Modern Lovers as well. But that was back when Television were punk, and the Talking Heads were punk.

Dean Wareham

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#69. I don't think about music as being new or modern. I just play.

Coleman Hawkins

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#70. Without the blues, modern music would be nothing like it is now - not remotely.

Henry Rollins

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#71. The world of technology has made it easier for people to get in touch with their modern muses regardless of the genres that they are trying to utilize and even if they create a new genre based on a mixing of others. The potential for modern-day muses is as vast as individual creativity.

Kytka Hilmar-Jezek

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#72. I'm into old-time music; I'm not very interested in modern, popular music at all. And if I'm really into some particular old-time musician, some fiddler or banjo player, I'm always dying of curiosity to see what they look like. So there's some connection between visual images and music.

Robert Crumb

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#73. I do listen to music. Movie scores, exclusively, because it's all about mood and nonspecificity. I love the way modern movie scoring is all about nonspecificity. You know, if I shuffled the tracks from 'Inception,' I challenge you to tell me which is which.

Joss Whedon

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#74. I was never particularly academic, so it was no great surprise when I failed my 11-plus and consequently went to Wibsey Secondary Modern. I did all right in English, history and music, which were the subjects that most interested me.

Kiki Dee

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#75. There's definitely an old school element to my music, but I also think it's modern.

Lenny Kravitz

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#76. Even more so in nonindustrialized cultures than in modern Western societies, music is and was part of the fabric of everyday life.

Daniel J. Levitin

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#77. Listening to hard rock on the subway doesn't work for me, especially modern hard rock. Driving in L.A. helped me to understand the appeal of that music.

Paul Dano

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#78. I'm making music the way I would have done before modern equipment and music recording.

Timbaland

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#79. The bar ... is an exercise in solitude. Above all else, it must be quiet, dark, very comfortable - and, contrary to modern mores, no music of any kind, no matter how faint. In sum, there should be no more than a dozen tables, and a client that doesn't like to talk.

Luis Bunuel

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#80. And yet shall Love himself be heard,Though long deferred, though long deferred:O'er the modern waste a dove hath whirred:Music is Love in search of a word.

Sidney Lanier

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#81. All old music was modern once, and much more of the music of yesterday already sounds more old-fashioned than works which were written three centuries ago.

Peter Warlock

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#82. I always thought martial arts was the most modern choreography we could have right now, and I always wanted to put it to music.

Lou Reed

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#83. But I can't really say there is too much modern music that I'm blown away by at this moment.

Duncan Sheik

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#84. No man sings as beautifully as when his song is accompanied by a woman's voice.

Roman Payne

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#85. In the hysterical technocracy of modern music, sorrow is sent to the back of the class where it sits, pissing its pants in mortal terror.

Nick Cave

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#86. It's wonderful to look back and think you were part of a force that shaped modern music and influenced the public in so many ways. However, that's all in the past.

George Harrison

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#87. My sound definitely pays a lot of homage to the Nineties, but not just the dance music. There's also breakbeats, R&B, the big ballads. It's that whole era infused with very modern sounds.

Kiesza

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#88. The more country that my music gets, the less it fits into the country world today. It's almost like there needs to be two genres, modern country and ... country?

Kacey Musgraves

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#89. I really like the city of Vienna. I like its art, its music and its architecture. In short, I like the culture that Vienna represents. What really captures me is the period around 1900 - the time of Freud, Schnitzler and Klimt. This is the period in which the modern view of mind was born.

Eric Kandel

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#90. I was horrified by modern 12-tone music. I said to myself, 'Maybe I can find something different ... maybe salvation, liberation, is possible.

Pierre Schaeffer

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#91. Music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, and the date at which it was written has no significance whatever.

Peter Warlock

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#92. If you don't trust the roots of the modern music in Africa, then there's hope for that music at all.

Angelique Kidjo

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#93. If anybody is interested in listening to good modern music, I would recommend Jim Fassett, 'Symphony of the Birds.' It's really beautiful ... with real birds.

Gael Garcia Bernal

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#94. I think the music of Mozart is like a universe of human feelings, sentiments and fragility, and ... that's why it's so 'actual' in a way, so modern.

Cecilia Bartoli

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#95. Anybody who loves country music loves gospel. Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I'm competing with. We older artists are competing with the new style of country, with their new modern style of gospel, with the young people.

George Jones

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#96. Well, I am very happy that I was able to play a part in bringing music from the streets onto the radio and into modern culture, I worked very hard and always believed in the sounds I was creating.

Ice-T

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#97. That's what so sad about a lot of modern music, in my opinion, so many young bands never stay around long enough to fulfill their ultimate promise. They only get halfway there or a quarter of the way there.

Alan Vega

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#98. The danger in having modern music tied to a period piece is that hearing something may take you out of the moment.

Aldis Hodge

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#99. I urge you children to be patient with your parents. If they seem to be out of touch on such vital issues as dating, clothing styles, modern music, and use of family cars, listen to them anyway. They have the experience that you lack.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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#100. In Bach there is still too much crude Christianity, crude Germanism, crude scholasticism; he stands on the threshold of European (modern) music, but he looks back from there to the Middle Ages.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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