Musicians own music because music owns them.
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I don't have to worry No matter what they do to it, it works.Virgil Thomson
I don't care what other critics say, I only hope to be played.
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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Try a thing you haven't tried before three times once to get over the fear, once to find out how to do it, and a third time to find out whether you like it or not.
Virgil Thomson
Falsely conceived and rather clumsily executed . . . crooked folklore and halfway opera.
Virgil Thomson
I thought of myself as a species of knight errant attacking dragons single-handedly and rescuing musical virtue in distress.
Virgil Thomson
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