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"Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions."
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"Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap."

"An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can."

"In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years."

"Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art."

"The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind."
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"One must indeed test the strings to this life, bounce the bow, wet the mouthpiece, prepare for the deeper music that follows."

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"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."

"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."

"Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that."

"Music reveals the deepest beauty of the soul."
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