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When I was in Paris, all of the German refugees began to flow in and it was a very sad time.
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Since I'm allergic to various things, the army wouldn't accept me during the war, and I got into the Office of War…
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Why write for the orchestra? For one thing it's a very challenging problem.
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Well when I was young, when I was very young, when I was a little boy I don't remember the music I…
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My entire life has really revolved around music that was written about the time that I was born, 1908, to just before…
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Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore.
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Talking about a materialistic thing, I get about 13 times more royalties from Europe than I do from America.
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Yes, I get a report from BMI about the frequency of performances, and it is very surprising. They played one of my…
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Almost every one of my various zero numbered birthdays has had a big concert in London and often in Paris.
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That was one of the big problems when I was at Harvard studying music. We had to write choral pieces in the…
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Aaron Copland was a man that had a very specific point of view about what music should be which was that, he…
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Right at the end of the war I wrote a piano sonata, which was written at a time when Sam Barber used…
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My aunt used to call me light bulb head because my head is small at the bottom and bigger at the top.…
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I had my Aunt Rosie, who was famous and then not, so I got a lesson in fame early on. And I…
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I love San Francisco so much. I call it the Emerald City and have been coming here since 1992. I have a…
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Don't tell me to believe. Don't tell me to believe in the same God or laws that men believe in who commit…
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Many forms, sizes and colors, I think there are heroes in sports, in life...It would be cliché to say my dad, my…
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My mom was always pretty supportive. She saw me do plays and she'd always act out the parts I did. My aunt,…
— Angela Bassett
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My Aunt Ida at age eighty-three: 'Yeah,' she said, 'I'll be dead pretty soon. And frankly, I don't give a damn.'
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By some chance, here they are, all on this earth; and who shall ever tell the sorrow of being on this earth,…
— James Agee
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I wish I were one of those terribly clever people who, when they write their autobiographies, always say, when I was fifteen…
— George Seaton
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Even that crazy lunatic, my aunt the Empress, wa absolutely sweet and charming.
— Lord Mountbatten
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The farm was a great place to grow up, but I preferred the Hollywood Hills. My aunt looked like Lucille Ball and…
— Sandra Lerner
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And if my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle.
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