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"To those at the great house it means nothing, this handful of earth, but to me it means how much!' (Buck, 57)"

"It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation."

"The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing."
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"Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow."


"Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper."


"I always want to write erotic music... Not only about the love between men and women, but in a much more universal sense - about the sensuality of the mechanism of the universe... about life."


"The art music of the West has developed through out its history by means of individual geniuses, and out of the soil supporting them; non-Western musicians were born, and grew like the grasses of the field."


"I probably belong to a type of composer of songs who keeps thinking about melody... I am old fashioned."
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