Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.
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The colour of my soul is iron-grey and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams.
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Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.
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People don't very much like things that are beautiful -- they are so far from their nasty little minds.
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First of all, ladies and gentlemen, you must forget that you are singers.
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