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"Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that he receives his inspiration from a source higher than himself."
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"Don't let the bastards grind you down."
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"You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."
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"Life is the music of your soul, all you need to do is to listen hard."
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"Belief driven by determination is one key factor governing whether what you pursue becomes real or not."
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"History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this."
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"Open your eyes to what wonder exists in the world. You have within your the power to create the life you want."
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"It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking."
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"Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not."
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"Gloomy ones must learn to light the Fire of Inspiration " the Spark that will clear the Dark within."
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"The visions we offer our children shape the future. It _matters_ what those visions are. Often they become self-fulfilling prophecies. Dreams are maps."
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"The average music-lover hears only the production under prevailing conditions."
Music
"Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing."
Music
"To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false."
Music
"There is much modern music that is better adapted to a wind combination than to a string, although for obvious reasons originally scored for an orchestra. If in such cases the interpretation is equal to the composition the balance of a wind combination is more satisfying."
Music
"Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist; in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty."
Beauty
"I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher."
Progress
"I am happy now, to recall that I was no only his son but his companion, and whenever there was a hunting expedition or any other pleasure, I was always with him."
Son
"Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains."
People
"American teachers have one indisputable advantage over foreign ones; they understand the American temperament and can judge its unevenness, its lights and its shadows."
American
"Sincere composers believe in God."
God
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