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"The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes."
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"I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment."
Impulses
"An operetta is simply a small and gay opera."
Gay
"A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything."
World
"Destiny smiles upon me but without making me the least bit happier."
Destiny
"It is strange how one feels drawn forward without knowing at first where one is going."
First
"There is a world of difference between a Mahler eighth note and a normal eighth note."
Difference
"I also had a brother who was like me a musician and a composer. A man of great talent, far more gifted than I. He died very young... he killed himself in the prime of his life."
Life
"In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience."
Music
"The call of love sounds very hollow among these immobile rocks."
Love
"I don't let myself get carried away by my own ideas - I abandon 19 out of 20 of them every day."
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"One must indeed test the strings to this life, bounce the bow, wet the mouthpiece, prepare for the deeper music that follows."
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"There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is."
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"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."
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"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."
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"You can cage the singer but not the song."
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"For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty."
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"Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that."
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"Music reveals the deepest beauty of the soul."
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"We could argue about what constitutes the creepiest line in pop music, but for me it's early Beatles- John Lennon, actually- singing 'I'd rather see you dead, little girl, than to be with another man."
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"Music fills the void between the heart and soul and connects them in heavenly delights."
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