First of all, ladies and gentlemen, you must forget that you are singers.

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People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?

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How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling.

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I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.

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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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I love music passionately. And because l love it, I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.

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Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part.

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The attraction of the virtuoso for the public is very like that of the circus for the crowd. There is always the hope that something dangerous will happen.

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Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear. There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law.

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There is nothing is more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all that book which, alas, musicians read but too little - the book of Nature.

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