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"All you hear Catholics turning out these days are pop versions of the old Protestant anthems."
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"To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something."
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"Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old."
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"Very interesting for an old duffer like me to try his hand at something new. If I don't do that once in a while, I might just turn into a fossil, you know!"
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"To be seventy years young is sometimes for more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old."
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"When the truth is that there would be no great Western music, and certainly no decent choral repertoire, without the Catholic faith."

"There's nothing stupider than bursting into song for seven seconds and then falling silent again."

"For two thousand years, the Church has guided the development of music, carefully legislating to fuse artistic talent and aesthetic beauty with the demands of the Faith."

"The pastor of a parish will typically have no education in the chant or in music, and he will hire the first music director who walks through the door."

"Inaudible prayers, particularly of the Canon, which at first don't seem to have anything to do with music, end up being a very important part of the aesthetic of the traditional structure of the Mass."

"You can count on one hand the number of Novus Ordo churches in this country that feature a fully Catholic music program of any quality, consistent with the Roman rite tradition."

"Thus the slogan should be reversed: Catholics taught the world what music is supposed to sound like, and, more importantly, what it is supposed to mean."
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