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The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.
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Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and quits the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.
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Good music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and quits the memory with difficulty.
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The grand tune is the only thing in music that the great public really understands.
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No composer has written as much as 100 bars of worthwhile music since 1925.
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The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought.
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A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.
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Born:
April 29, 1879
Died:
March 8, 1961
(aged 81)
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