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Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.Johannes Brahms
W. H. Hadow commenting on the music of Johannes Brahms In him converge all previous streams of tendency, not as into a pool, stagnant, passive, motionless, but as a noble river that received its tributary waters and bearss them onward in larger and statelier volume.
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We cling nervously to the melody, but we don't handle it freely, we don't really make anything new out of it, we merely overload it.
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If there is anyone here whom I have not insulted, I beg his pardon.
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Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully.
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