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I will hear in heaven!
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Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
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There is no greater pleasure for me than to practice and exhibit my art.
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Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.
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Music, verily, is the mediator between the life of the mind and the senses.
Variant translation: Music is indeed the mediator between the spiritual and sensual life.
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Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.
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I shall seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.
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Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est. [Applaud, my friends, the comedy is over.]
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Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?
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The foundation of friendship demands the greatest likeness of human souls and hearts.
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Whoever tells a lie is not pure of heart, and such a person can not cook a clean soup.
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Men are not only together when they are with each other; even the distant and the dead live with us.
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The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, Thus far and no farther.
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Handel is the greatest composer that ever lived... I would uncover my head and kneel down on his tomb.
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I have always reckoned myself among the greatest admirers of Mozart, and shall do so till the day of my death.
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One must not hold one's self so divine as to be unwilling occasionally to make improvements in one's creations.
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To do good whenever one can, to love liberty above all else, never to deny the truth, even though it be before the throne.
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I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out; that is the reason why I compose.
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There is no loftier mission than to approach the Divinity nearer than other men, and to disseminate the divine rays among mankind.
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Don't only practise your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.
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What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.
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The world is a king, and like a king, desires flattery in return for favor; but true art is selfish and perverse — it will not submit to the mold of flattery.
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Recommend virtue to your children, that alone - not wealth - can give happiness. It upholds in adversity and the thought of it and my art prevents me from putting an end to my life.
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My ship was also in better condition than when she sailed from Boston on her long voyage. She was still as sound as a nut, and as tight as the best ship afloat. She did not leak a drop - not one drop!
Joshua Slocum
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Born:
December 16, 1770
Died:
March 26, 1827
(aged 56)
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