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"I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment."
Impulses
"An operetta is simply a small and gay opera."
Gay
"A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything."
World
"It is easier to achieve a desired result in short pieces."
Result
"Destiny smiles upon me but without making me the least bit happier."
Destiny
"It is strange how one feels drawn forward without knowing at first where one is going."
First
"There is a world of difference between a Mahler eighth note and a normal eighth note."
Difference
"The spirit can assert itself only through the medium of clear form."
Spirit
"I also had a brother who was like me a musician and a composer. A man of great talent, far more gifted than I. He died very young... he killed himself in the prime of his life."
Life
"If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music."
Music
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"Always seek beauty to create a beautiful life."
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Personal Development
"For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle."
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Personal Development
"I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across-not to just depict life-or criticize it-but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing. You can't do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. Because if it is all beautiful you can't believe in it. Things aren't that way."
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"Of an artistic temperament, I deny that I am; yet I must possess something of the artist's faculty of making the most of present pleasure."
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Personal Development
"Make movies my friend " make nice, inspiring and bold movies that will penetrate the darkest corners of the human mind and illuminate the soul."
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"Music is breath of life."
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Personal Development
"My poems are only bits of scratchingon the floor of acage."
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"A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart."
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"For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word or a verse and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem. The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences more faithfully, and these transcripts, though imperfect, become the songs of the nations."
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"Music gives life to the soul."
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