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"Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth."
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"If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven."
"But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense."
"In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind."
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"A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity."
"There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life."
"It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience."
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