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title: "3 Virgil Thomson Quotes by 3 authors"
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> [ I thought it would be nice to marry Virgil \[Thomson\] to have a musical background, but I never got far with the… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peggy-guggenheim/i-thought-it-would-be-nice-to-marry-virgil-thomson-to-have-a-musical/)

[Peggy Guggenheim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peggy-guggenheim/)

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> [ \[Gertrude Stein\] really needed someone like Virgil Thomson, whom she respected, to sit on her a bit and make her devise some… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-laughlin/gertrude-stein-really-needed-someone-like-virgil-thomson-whom-she/)

[James Laughlin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-laughlin/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/498/james-laughlin-25051_bits_gertrude-stein-really-needed-someone-lik_2805472.jpg)

> [“The fearsome critic and not-very-tough composer Virgil Thomson once drew up a set of rules for hearing an unfamiliar work; the last…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aaron-copland/the-fearsome-critic-and-not-very-tough-composer-virgil-thomson-once/)

[Aaron Copland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aaron-copland/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/517/aaron-copland-15785_critic_the-fearsome-critic-and-not-very-tough-c_2973683.jpg)

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