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"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."
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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."
"I was about sixteen when I discovered that music could get you laid, so I got into music boy, didn't matter what you looked like either, you could be a geeky looking guy but if you played music, whoa, you'd get the girls."
"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent."
"A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it."
"Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory."
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"Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless."
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"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."
"Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing."
"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."
"In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance."
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