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"As rich as Cincinnati was in live music, New York was even more."
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"Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that."
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"Music reveals the deepest beauty of the soul."
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"Music fills the void between the heart and soul and connects them in heavenly delights."
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"I listen to music constantly while writing."
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"Music heard so deeplyThat it is not heard at all, butyou are the musicWhile the music lasts."
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"Music is the song of eternal love which touches the soul and fills us with joy."
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"I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation."
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"Music is the language of the universe, which everyone, including all animals, can understand."
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"Tax not so bad a voice to slander music any more than once."
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"Music is the primordial language of life. That is why we love it so much. Actually every animal can hear and understand music better than we do."
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"So this anchoring in some way, in some important way in the past without repeating the past, but on the basis of the past building something new: that is what is important."
Building
"And it is this sense that some of us have to contribute to the culture, to the society in ways that may hurt financially, so what? We do it because we are born to do it, we feel we have no other choice and so be it."
Society
"That was more or less coincidental in the sense that my parents wanted me to come back to New York because that's the center of musical activity still to this day, more or less, and so I auditioned for the Metropolitan Opera."
Day
"After the war, once the bop revolution had taken hold, there were all kinds of young musicians, talented young musicians, who were ready for this fusion of classical and jazz."
War
"As rich as Cincinnati was in live music, New York was even more."
Music
"I would like to read some books: I don't have time; I would like to continue working on my autobiography."
Time
"So now, thirty years, forty years later, I mean, I could find a whole orchestra of a thousand to put these things together in New York City alone. In those days, if I could scrape up twenty musicians to do this it was something extraordinary."
Musicians
"Because I have sixty years of being a professional composer, conductor, musician, whatever, and you develop a lot of friendships and you get involved with a lot of sort of long-term commitments and obligations."
Being
"Well, because music is my life and music is not work for me."
Life
"I don't hate work, composing is not work for me, it's my pleasure; it's my life. So why should I stop? If something is pleasurable and exciting and rewarding, why should one stop?"
Work
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