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Edward German Quotes

d. 1936 England

Sir Edward German (17 February 1862 – 11 November 1936) was an English musician and composer, best remembered for his extensive output of incidental music for the stage and as a successor to Arthur Sullivan in the field of English comic opera.

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If you can't do anything as good as or even better than what you have already done, then don't do it.

I should like to shake Eric Coates but I won't. When I meet him he says, "I just love every note you have written." and I believe he does--but--as you say--well!

I am one of those men who never enter into controversies but I shall certainly speak my views to anybody whom I may meet on the subject.

When Adam and Eve were dispossessed
Of the garden hard by Heaven
They planted another one down in the West
Twas Devon, glorious Devon

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