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"For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general."
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"What is classical music if not the epitome of sensuality, passion, and understated erotica that popular music, even with all of its energy and life, cannot even begin to touch?"

"However, the thought hit me that this was a pretty pathetic way to kick the bucket - being accidentally poisoned during a photo shoot, of all things - and I started weeping at the idiocy of it all."

"The concept is basically; that the pieces we know and love are made up of scales, arpeggios, and the like."

"Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to a concert in which something goes wrong."

"I am very lucky and grateful to have this living link to a past era, the violin presumably having much more history to it than the later portion that I know."

"A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and the prejudice the few female conductors have to battle even today is astounding."

"And apparently things like a Vindaloo curry are out for the rest of my life, or at least a long time."

"Let me be very honest and just say that if any airline would let me take the violin and the laptop on board I would fly that airline all the time."
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