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"A song is anything that can walk by itself."
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"People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas."
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"All truthful music is familiar to the ear, for its notes were written into our souls long ago."
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"This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway."
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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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"Strains of music spring up, crystallizing in the night air like rain turning suddenly to snow, drifting to earth."
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"A tapping foot isn't the best a listener can get from a song: A good song makes a listener dance. A great song makes him think."
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"Music has always gotten me through life, particularly honest, real music."
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"I aim my arrangements at what will fit and colorfully frame the song in the best way possible."
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"I don't use old music."
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"It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me."
Work
"Truth is a great flirt."
Truth
"Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless."
Men
"I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment... rather it sprung from the truly fervent faith of my heart, such as I have felt it since my childhood."
Faith
"Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words."
Art
"Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words."
Inspirational
"Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice."
Faith
"Without any assistance whatever, I founded a school in Weimar in 10 years. Only I could perform certain works with the scanty means that I dared not ask anyone else to work with."
Work
"A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense."
Quality
"The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character without presuming to display them as real or imaginary representations."
Music
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