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"A theatre receives recognition through its initiative, which is indispensable for first-rate performances."
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"But somehow, I felt no inclination to be interested in it in any amateur way, let alone professional, until suddenly I became interested. And the first thing I did was to compose: not play an instrument, but to compose."

"The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it."

"And the things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first."

"First of all, I'm not the kind of guy that likes to rehash the show and so forth and so on."
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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."

"I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment... rather it sprung from the truly fervent faith of my heart, such as I have felt it since my childhood."

"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."

"It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me."

"Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing."

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