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"Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos?"
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"I can't read a note of music. I just do it all from ear."
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"Music is the highest form of philosophy of the conscious mind."
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"Music fills the infinite to give us infinite joy."
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"Music fills the soul with divine beauty of pure love and life."
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"The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days."
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"I think if we keep on doing good music and people like us and they buy the magazine because we are in the magazine then they cant basically hate us hopefully."
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"I have observed, too, that the people of the many countries that I have visited are showing an ever increasing interest in the classical and traditional music of their own cultures."
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"Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing."
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"If I had girls to educate I would not have them learn both music and drawing."
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"All old music was modern once, and much more of the music of yesterday already sounds more old-fashioned than works which were written three centuries ago."
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"Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos?"
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"Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal."
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"The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution."
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"In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?"
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"I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge."
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"The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending."
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"The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament."
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"My music is best understood by children and animals."
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"Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning."
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"To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also."
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