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"Governmental aid is a drawback rather than an assistance, as, although it may facilitate in the routine of artistic production, it is an impediment to the development of true artistic genius."
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"Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!"
"The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs."
"It is the union of independence and dependence of these branches - legislative, executive and judicial - and of the governmental functions possessed by each of them, that constitutes the marvellous genius of this unrivalled document."
"Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent."
"What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero."
"A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else."
"The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people."
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"American teachers have one indisputable advantage over foreign ones; they understand the American temperament and can judge its unevenness, its lights and its shadows."
"From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else."
"To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false."
"I firmly believe that we have more latent musical talent in America than there is in any other country. But to dig it out there must be good music throughout the land, a lot of it. Everyone must hear it, and such a process takes time."
"Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music."
"Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist; in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty."
"America can well expect to develop a goodly amount of composers for she has a goodly number of people."
"I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes."
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