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"Not everyone who loves music can play the tune."

"It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists."

"The movies remind me of the Triangle Club at Princeton. I used to belong to it, and we always started out firm in our decision to create new and startling things. We always ended up by producing the same old show. In the beginning, our enthusiasm and ideals discarded as rubbish all the old fossilized plots."

"A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories."

"Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art."

"Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing."

"The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity."
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"When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself."

"A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist."

"Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please."

"Yes, there's such a thing as luck in trial law but it only comes at 3 o'clock in the morning. You'll still find me in the library looking for luck at 3 o'clock in the morning."
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