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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 The White Stripes and I like the kinda twang American thing right now."
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"American audiences tend to be more expressive than British ones."
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"The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out."
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"Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them."
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"We did not treat the Americans badly. They left Iran in a relaxed mood. The embassy was active here after the revolution. We didn't have any problem with them. They started it."
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"Continental directors, as opposed to British and American, tend to be somewhat high-handed in their approach."
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"The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent."
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"Every child in American should have access to a well-stocked school library."
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"Being an American musician means being adventurous."
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"The only difference between the Bel Air of the '90s and the Bel Air of my childhood is that now the nannies are Latina instead of British, and the cars European instead of American."
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"Sincere composers believe in God."
God
"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
"I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher."
Progress
"From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else."
Music
"I think that the quality of all bands is steadily improving and it is a pleasant thought to me that perhaps the efforts of Sousa's Band have quickened that interest and improved that quality."
Quality
"The average music-lover hears only the production under prevailing conditions."
Music
"Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music."
Beauty
"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
"I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes."
Music
"The movements which I make I cannot possibly repress because, at the time, I am actually the idea I am interpreting, and naturally I picture my players and auditors as in accord with me. I know, of course, that my mannerisms have been widely discussed."
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