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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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"This is due partly to the fact that Americans are much better fed than Europeans, and partly to the undeveloped resources of a new country, but more largely to our climate, which acts as a constant stimulus."
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"I believe we are now in a struggle over whether or not we are going to save America."
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"I am an American citizen and feel I am entitled to the same rights as any other citizen."
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"America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese."
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"Then on to all the terrific american songwriters, from Tin Pan Alley to the Beatles, from Bob Dylan to Paul Simon. Whoever wrote and sang in the song form I have appreciated."
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"Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?"
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"The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf."
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"I'm an American before any party preference."
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"Though race-related issues continue to occupy a significant portion of our political discussion, and though there remain many unresolved racial issues in this nation, we, average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about things racial."
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"I shouldn't be saying this - high treason, really - but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there."
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"There is one thing that freezes a musician more than the deadliest physical cold, and that is the spiritual chill of an unresponsive audience!"
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"Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that he receives his inspiration from a source higher than himself."
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"Sincere composers believe in God."
God
"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
"Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds."
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"I had found English audiences highly satisfactory. They are the best listeners in the world. Perhaps the music-lovers of some of our larger cities equal the English, but I do not believe they can be surpassed in that respect."
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"To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false."
Music
"I still feel the impulse to give young writers a hearing, and I believe I have played more unpublished compositions than any other band leader in the country."
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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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"I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher."
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