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"Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift."
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"It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts."
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"Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention."
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"Wonderful invention, the phonograph. Keeps a man alive long after he's dead."
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"I did not grasp all these details - and many more - right away. They came to my notice with time and as a result of necessity. I would be in the direst of dire straits, facing a bleak future, when some small thing, some detail, would transform itself and appear in my mind in a new light. It would no longer be the small thing it was before, but the most important thing in the world, the thing that would save my life. This happened time and again. How true it is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true."
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"Most of them are doomed to rapid extinction, but a few may make evolutionary inventions, such as physiological, ecological, or behavioral innovations that give these species improved competitive potential."
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"Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift."
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"We are not a Zappa cover band. We only play Frank's songs that were recorded by the Mothers of Invention and I think a lot of those songs were complex."
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"An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started."
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"What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it's so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I've received a spam text."
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"We fixed on No. 4, Queen Street Place, for our City offices, and it was from there that so many of my patented inventions were dated."
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"To judge a composer's work, one must consider it as a whole."
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"It is strange how one feels drawn forward without knowing at first where one is going."
First

"The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause."
Life

"An operetta is simply a small and gay opera."
Gay

"In the theatrical works we love and admire the most, the ending of the drama generally takes place offstage."
Love

"I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment."
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"The spirit can assert itself only through the medium of clear form."
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"All that is not perfect down to the smallest detail is doomed to perish."
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"You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion."
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"With the coming of spring, I am calm again."
Spring
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