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"American teachers have one indisputable advantage over foreign ones; they understand the American temperament and can judge its unevenness, its lights and its shadows."
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"I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into."
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"I applied to American Repertory School up at Harvard at got in."
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"Yes, and it's my third movie with Richard. American Gigolo was my first."
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"There are actually quite high profile British TV star cameos in it that you probably wouldn't even notice, that the British wouldn't even notice, let alone the American audience."
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"I like The White Stripes and I like the kinda twang American thing right now."
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"Nobody in America, in the modern generation, has read their mythology or legends."
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"I think The Exorcist is the best American horror movie ever made. Friedkin was at the top of his game."
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"It's not a special taste. An American composer should have something to say to a cab driver."
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"Rural American families who depend on firewood to heat their homes will be hit just as hard as those who use oil and natural gas."
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"Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire."
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"Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing."
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"To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false."
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"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 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
"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
"Is it not the business of the conductor to convey to the public in its dramatic form the central idea of a composition; and how can he convey that idea successfully if he does not enter heart and soul into the life of the music and the tale it unfolds?"
Business
"I firmly believe that we have more latent musical talent in America than there is in any other country. But to dig it out there must be good music throughout the land, a lot of it. Everyone must hear it, and such a process takes time."
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"I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes."
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"Governmental aid is a drawback rather than an assistance, as, although it may facilitate in the routine of artistic production, it is an impediment to the development of true artistic genius."
Genius
"The office of President is a great one; to every true American it seems the greatest on earth. And to me, as I was engaged in weaving a background of music for the pageantry of it, there came a deeper realization of the effect of that office on the man."
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