"We are rich in the quantity of songs rather than in the quality. The singer has to go through hundreds of compositions before he finds one that really says something."

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"We are rich in the quantity of songs rather than in the quality. The singer has to go through hundreds of compositions before he finds one that really says something."

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"Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works."

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