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"There are some sounds that English singers find quite difficult to manipulate."
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"What's the point of using words nobody knows or can say comfortably?"

"Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is."

"We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."

"Why people use "Was" I have heard some people to say "I was a smart kid at school - Eminem", but why "Was", was is a word for describing the past... which will mean that has started and ended... so what??? How to get it now? You aren't wise, are you?"

"Words themselves are neutral. It's the charge we add to them that matters."

"Certain things were deemed to be offensive. It was usually bad language."

"In the year 1915 a series of trivial incidents led some Chinese students in Cornell University to take up the question of reforming the Chinese language."

"It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn."

"Come English Settlement, I had it in my head that I didn't want to tour."
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"Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now."

"So I think we got together as the Academy to give ourselves that sort of responsibility and to play well."

"Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti."

"But the most important test is to take them on tour and see if you can bear to spend time with them."

"So I've never found there was any particular separation between the two cultures at all, musically speaking."
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