I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good.
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Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.Virgil Thomson
I thought of myself as a species of knight errant attacking dragons single-handedly and rescuing musical virtue in distress.
Virgil Thomson
The description and explanation is the best part of music reviewing. There is such a thing, and you know it too, as a gift for judgment. If you have it, you can say anything you like. If you haven't got it, you don't know you haven't got it.
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I don't care what other critics say, I only hope to be played.
Virgil Thomson
I seem to write an opera about every 20 years if you live long enough you can write four operas. I finished my third in 1970.
Virgil Thomson
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