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Even a large majority of beautiful music, great literature, and wonderful work of arts depicts human suffering, injustice, fears, and unfulfilled desires.
A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.
The grand tune is the only thing in music that the great public really understands.
Lovely forms do flow
From conceit divinely framed;
Heaven is music, and thy beauty's
Birth is heavenly.
The music teacher came twice a week to bridge the awful gap between Dorothy and Chopin.
If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth.
From Toscanini I learnt the essential and desperate seriousness of making music.
African music, though very old, is always being rediscovered in the West.
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