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• My success is not due to any personal superiority over other people.
• I am happy now, to recall that I was not only his son but his companion, and whenever there was a hunting…
• I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher.
• Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that he receives his inspiration from a source higher…
• Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds.
• Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music.
• The vocal cord will be eliminated by a process of evolution, as was the tail of man when he came from the…
• You can't drive a Spike with a Tack Hammer
• I still feel the impulse to give young writers a hearing, and I believe I have played more unpublished compositions than any…
• I forsee a marked deterioration in American musicand a host of other injuries to music in its artistic manifestations, by virtue—or rather…
• American teachers have one indisputable advantage over foreign ones; they understand the American temperament and can judge its unevenness, its lights and…
• The average music-lover hears only the production under prevailing conditions.

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