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"The nearest figure to myself would be Shakespeare."
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"Shakespeare is the one who gets re-interpreted most frequently."
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"Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world."
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"We cannot arrive at Shakespeare's whole dramatic way of looking at the world from his tragedies alone, as we can arrive at Milton's way of regarding things, or at Wordsworth's or at Shelley's, by examining almost any one of their important works."
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"The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary."
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"We have cut the text, but what remains are Shakespeare's words."
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"I couldn't believe verse was supposed to be hard. It was a snap for me. I loved Shakespeare."
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"In speaking, for convenience, of devices and expedients, I did not intend to imply that Shakespeare always deliberately aimed at the effects which he produced."
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"It is true that there are few plays of Shakespeare that I haven't done."
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"I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me."
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"The nearest figure to myself would be Shakespeare."
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"This is something special. You can attempt to have a kind of non-living music."
Music
"Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater."
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"My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create images from the depths of the imagination and to give them form, whether visual, intellectual or musical."
Imagination
"Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading."
Imagination
"Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score."
Music
"Nature has different times."
Nature
"The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time."
Music
"Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme."
Life
"Music is a performance and needs the audience."
Music
"I'm outside the music I've made. I have no interest in it."
Music
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