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Leopold Stokowski on Music

1882–1977 England

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A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music, and you provide the silence.

I simply make music, and people have always been foolish enough to pay me for it. I never told them that I would have done it all for nothing. CBS TV 1976

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