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Works of art make rules but rules do not make works of art.
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Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.
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First of all, ladies and gentlemen, you must forget that you are singers.
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To complete a work is just like being present at the death of someone you love.
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The colour of my soul is iron-grey and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams.
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How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling.
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Music expresses the motion of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.
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People don't very much like things that are beautiful — they are so far from their nasty little minds.
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The music I desire must be supple enough to adapt itself to the lyrical effusions of the soul and the fantasy of dreams.
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It is necessary to abandon yourself completely, and let the music do as it will with you. All people come to music to seek oblivion.
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But music, don't you know, is a dream from which the veils have been lifted. It's not even the expression of a feeling, it's the feeling itself.
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The attraction of the virtuoso for the public is very like that of the circus for the crowd. There is always the hope that something dangerous may happen.
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Is it not our duty to find the symphonic formula which fits our time, one which progress, daring and modern victory demand? The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.
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Every sound perceived by the acute ear in the rhythm of the world about us can be represented musically. Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear.
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Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Robert F. Kennedy
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Born:
August 22, 1862
Died:
March 25, 1918
(aged 55)
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