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• And here we come to the vital distinction between the advocacy of temperance and the advocacy of prohibition. Temperance and self-control are…
• People usually complain that music is so ambiguous, and what they are supposed to think when they hear it is so unclear,…
• Ever since I began to compose, I have remained true to my starting principle: not to write a page because no matter…
• Life and art are not two different things....
• It's not that music is too imprecise for words, but too precise....
• The trombone is too sacred for frequent use.
• This is what I think art is and what I demand of it: that it pull everyone in, that it show one…
• I know perfectly well that no musician can make his thoughts or his talents different to what Heaven has made them; but…
• And do you agree with me, that the first condition of an artist should be to bear respect toward what is great,…
• Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far…
• These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a…
• People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone…

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