Sincere composers believe in God.

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My religion lies in my composition.

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My success is not due to any personal superiority over other people.

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Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds.

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The average music-lover hears only the production under prevailing conditions.

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Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

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Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing.

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No nation as young as America can be expected to become immediately a power in the arts.

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America can well expect to develop a goodly amount of composers for she has a goodly number of people.

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Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music.

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