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Arthur Sullivan Quotes

d. 1900 England

Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan (13 May 1842 – 22 November, 1900) was an English composer and conductor, best known as the composer of the Savoy operas, "The Lost Chord", and "Onward, Christian Soldiers".

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Darwinian man though well behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved!

After all we [have] each of us only eight notes to work upon.

The theatre is not the place for the musician. When the curtain is up the music interrupts the actor, and when it is down the music interrupts the audience.

One day work is hard, and another day it is easy; but if I had waited for inspiration I am afraid I should have done nothing. The miner does not sit at the top of the shaft waiting for the coal to come bubbling up to the surface. One must go deep down, and work out every vein carefully.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Arthur Sullivan (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.