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"The impressionists, Debussy, Faure, in France, did take a few steps forward."
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"In France, you can sell a lot, but nobody outside of France ever hears of it."

"The best thing I know between France and England is the sea."

"The 1984 European Championships were held in France and that was something important. I felt on form then, even though I was practically always injured at all the World Cups. It's a great memory. But in any case, the past is past."

"For years I have been going to the South of France to cool out."

"France needs to find something that makes it stand out. It's not enough for it to do almost as well as its neighbors."

"In France, everyone speaks French 'cause they think it's cool. Gives 'em, gives 'em an excuse to smoke."

"Sometimes, but the year I lived in France I started to write songs."

"My husband is a general's chauffeur somewhere in France."
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"The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance."

"First, it doesn't surprise me that traditional music has experienced a kind of exhaustion in the 20th century - not forgetting that many musicians started to look outside the traditional structures of tonality."

"The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn't change."

"Morally, the world is both better and worse than it was. We are worse off than in the middle ages, or the 17th and 18th centuries, in that we have the atomic menace."
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