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Quotes from Composers on Music : An Anthology of Composers' Writings from Palestrina to Copland — Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

1714–1788 Germany

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A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved. He must feel all the emotions that he hopes to arouse in his audience, for the revealing of his own humor will stimulate a like mood in the listener.

Composers on Music : An Anthology of Composers' Writings from Palestrina to Copland (1956)

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