Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music.
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Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.
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Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist; in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty.
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Sincere composers believe in God.
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The average music-lover hears only the production under prevailing conditions.
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