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Quotes from Virgil Thomson — Virgil Thomson

d. 1989 United States

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I got myself into a lovely little—shall we say controversy—with André Breton, by pointing out that the discipline of spontaneity, which he was asking his surrealist neophytes to adopt, was new for language but something that composers had been practicing for centuries.

Virgil Thomson (1981)

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