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"Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes."
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"What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around."
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"I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control."
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"Ah, Senor Zhang," Leo said, "you know how you're always saying, 'Leo, you are the only true genius among demigods'?""I'm pretty sure I never said that."
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"Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way."
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"A genius does what he masters. An ordinary man tries to master what he does."
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"A genius is a grown-up that did not grow up."
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"Genius - the pursuit of madness."
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"This was genius at close quarters, and genius had that something above normal in it that was a great strain upon the ordinary mind and feeling. All five were different from each other, yet each had that curious quality of burning intensity, the single-mindedness of purpose that made such a terrifying impression. She did not know whether it were a quality of brain or rather a quality of outlook, of intensity. But each of them, she thought, was in his or her way a passionate idealist."
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"Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite."
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"The role of genius is not to complicate the simple, but to simplify the complicated."
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"I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm."
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"An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs."
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"Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical."
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"Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes."
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"I have just begun a work in which an important part is given to a large chorus and with it I want to use several of your instruments - augmenting their range as in those I used for my Equatorial - especially in the high range."
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"I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music."
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"There is an idea, the basis of an internal structure, expanded and split into different shapes or groups of sound constantly changing in shape, direction, and speed, attracted and repulsed by various forces."
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"Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor."
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"Music is organized sound."
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"I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena."
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