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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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"Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years."
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"In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end."
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"It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end."
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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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"If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion."
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"You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling."
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"But even if I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling."
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"I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime."
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"Certainly toward the end of the season, you and I could be in a ballpark and they might say the crowd is 30,000, and we could look around and see that there was no more than 10,000."
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"Just what you want to be, you will be in the end."
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"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 begin by considering an effect."
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"The only love affair I have ever had was with music."
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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 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."
Work
"You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel."
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"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."
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