Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.

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I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.

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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

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Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos?

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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?

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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.

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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.

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I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.

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Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.

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