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"Not everyone who loves music can play the tune."
"It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists."
"The movies remind me of the Triangle Club at Princeton. I used to belong to it, and we always started out firm in our decision to create new and startling things. We always ended up by producing the same old show. In the beginning, our enthusiasm and ideals discarded as rubbish all the old fossilized plots."
"A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories."
"Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art."
"Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing."
"The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity."
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"When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, as how you take it."
"The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it."
"Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?"
"Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?"
"A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's not and most of us have been going along with it ever since."
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