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"You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel."
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"Things start out as hopes and end up as habits."
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"One has to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb."
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"Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough."
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"Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began."
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"There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over."
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"High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless."
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"You know you've reached the end of a relationship: when your lover now demands that your jokes be funny before they laugh."
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"They look for the top note to end every song. They don't know what they are singing about. There is no style."
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"Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end."
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"There's a lot of Doyle in me. I don't know where I begin and Doyle ends or where Doyle begins and I end."
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"The only love affair I have ever had was with music."
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"You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel."
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"My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation."
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"We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art."
Art
"I begin by considering an effect."
Effect
"For Debussy the musician and the man I have had profound admiration, but by nature I'm different from him. I think I have always personally followed a direction opposed to that of the symbolism of Debussy."
Nature
"I did my work slowly, drop by drop. I tore it out of me by pieces."
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"Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second."
Music
"I am not one of the great composers. All the great have produced enormously. There is everything in their work - the best and the worst, but there is always quantity. But I have written relatively little."
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