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• But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it.
• The art of music above all the other arts is the expression of the soul of a nation.
• The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more.
• There is no reason why an atheist could not write a good Mass.
• Music is the reaching out towards the utmost realities by means of ordered sound.
• Beethoven was ahead of the times, Bach behind them.
• The great men of music close periods; they do not inaugurate them. The pioneer work, the finding of new paths, is left…
• I have always found it difficult to study. I have learnt almost entirely what I have learnt by trying it out on…
• I think there is no work of art which represents the spirit of a nation more surely than "Die Meister Singer" of…
• It looks wrong, and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
• It never seems to occur to people that a man might just want to write a piece of music.
• I don't know whether I like it, but it is what I meant.

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