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"When things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. It's because a little piece gets lost - the two remaining ends couldn't fit together even if they wanted to. The whole shape has changed."

"Every misfortune is a fortune."

"No, what is important is neither linearity or non-linearity, but the change, the degree of change from something that doesn't move to other events with different tempos in particular."

"It's quite nice to see that I didn't have to change who I was to reach two very different types of people."

"We ask the great masses of India to be patient a short time longer, while the cause of freedom is being fought out, not because we want to delay, but because the hard facts of war make a complete change impossible at the moment."
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"We need improvement in the style of performance. There is no more advantage in a musician who plays and conducts than in one who is only a beater of rhythm."

"The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to exist."

"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."

"Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words."

"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."

"As the mother teaches her children how to express themselves in their language, so one Gypsy musician teaches the other. They have never shown any need for notation."
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