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Virgil Thomson

"I never learned to verbalize an abstract musical concept. No thank you. The whole point of being a serious musician is to avoid verbalization whenever you can."

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Donna Grant

"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."

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Donna Grant

"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."

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Donna Grant

"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."

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Donna Grant

"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."

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Donna Grant

"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."

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Donna Grant

"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."

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Donna Grant

"Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being."

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Donna Grant

"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."

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Donna Grant

"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."

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"I enjoy the Web site a lot and I like being able to talk to my readers. I've always had a very close relationship with them."

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Virgil Thomson
"I never learned to verbalize an abstract musical concept. No thank you. The whole point of being a serious musician is to avoid verbalization whenever you can."

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Virgil Thomson
"I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good."

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"I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down."

Life

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"Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not."

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Virgil Thomson
"Let your mind alone, and see what happens."

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Virgil Thomson
"Musicians own music because music owns them."

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Virgil Thomson
"Reviewing music or reviewing anything is a writing job. It's nice if you are experienced in the field you are writing about, but writing is what you are doing."

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"In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise."

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"I don't care what other critics say, I only hope to be played."

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Virgil Thomson
"I don't have to worry No matter what they do to it, it works."

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