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"Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift."
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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."
"It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts."
"As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality."
"Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos; the materials must, in the first place, be afforded: it can give form to dark, shapeless substances but cannot bring into being the substance itself."
"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."
"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."
"And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition."
"Wonderful invention, the phonograph. Keeps a man alive long after he's dead."
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"If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music."
"I don't let myself get carried away by my own ideas - I abandon 19 out of 20 of them every day."
"In the theatrical works we love and admire the most, the ending of the drama generally takes place offstage."
"I also had a brother who was like me a musician and a composer. A man of great talent, far more gifted than I. He died very young... he killed himself in the prime of his life."
"The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes."
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