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His mastery of the hard-luck story was of a kind never achieved by persons not wholly concentrated on themselves. ↗

— Anthony Powell

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Irony is the kid who steals music and is stolen by the music. ↗

— MEDVGNO

#epic-poetry #film-script #philosophical #music

I am in the world only for the purpose of composing. Franz Schubert ↗

— Franz Schubert

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It’s not just about private time. It’s the atmosphere, the music and the lighting. It’s about doing something in public you know you shouldn’t and doing it anyway for the thrill of it. ↗

— Loni Flowers

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The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades. ↗

— Mark Twain

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The music of the future will not entertain It's only meant to repress and neutralize your brain ↗

— Porcupine Tree

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Performing music is the job that has the most to do with the belief in the existence of a soul. I deal in Berg's soul, in Brahm's soul- that's my job. And you can can challenge me, but I find that music is humans' most advanced achievement, more so than painting and writing, because it's more mysterious, more magical, and it acts in such a direct way. Trying to turn lead into gold is nothing compared to taking something mechanical like an instrument- a string and a bow- and using it to evoke a human soul, perserved through the centuries. ↗

— Christian Tetzlaff

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[...] ne aflam in cu totul alte raporturi fata de muzica clasica decat oamenii din epocile care au creat-o; veneratia spiritualizata si nu intotdeauna suficient eliberata de sub stapanirea unei melancolii resemnate, nutrita de noi fata de adevarata muzica, este cu totul altceva decat senina placere naiva iscata de muzica in vremurile in care a aparut [...] ↗

— Hermann Hesse

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I sit down to the piano regularly at nine-o'clock in the morning and Mesdames les Muses have learned to be on time for that rendezvous. ↗

— Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

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The stumbling block will turn out to be the traditional one for students of consciousness: the flashlight is incapable of shining on itself, so we can't trust what its light reveals. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

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