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“We cannot expect you to be with us all the time, but perhaps you could be good enough to keep in touch now and again.”

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As you'll never hear the thing again, my boy, why not throw in a couple of brass bands?

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Without question the most unpopular medium of musical sound in the world.

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The sound of the harpsichord resembles that of a bird-cage played with toasting-forks.

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Composers and musicians have always starved and, as this is a sentimental country, we think the tradition should be continued.

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What can you do with it? It's like a lot of yaks jumping about.

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No woman is worth the loss of a night's sleep.

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I prefer Offenbach to Bach often.

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The grand tune is the only thing in music that the great public really understands.

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I have just been all round the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it.

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Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands and all you can do is scratch it.

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In the first movement alone, I took note of six pregnancies and at least four miscarriages.

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Beethoven's last quartets were written by a deaf man and should only be listened to by a deaf man.

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The producers felt that 24 would be good for the audience, to really get to know who these 12 and 12 are.

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All will concede that in order to have good neighbors, we must also be good neighbors. That applies in every field of human endeavor.

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Everybody wants to be good, but not many are prepared to make the sacrifices it takes to be great.

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There's such cultural rot taking place, such a disintegration throughout our culture. Values, morality, you name it. Standards have been relaxed, and people are…

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The difference in being good at some thing and being great at something is usually found in the little things.

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