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Now, there are some periods of music, some pitches of which I can hear nothing... of my music as well as of others. I feel that there is on my shoulders nothing more than a terrible cloak of misery and discouragement.

— Gabriel Fauré

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To know an art really well, one must know everything about it, both its origins and its development.

At the Piano with Gabriel Fauré (1963)

For me art and music especially consists of raising ourselves as high as possible above that which is.

At the Piano with Gabriel Fauré (1963)

Imagining is trying to formulate all one would wish to be better, all that surpasses reality.

At the Piano with Gabriel Fauré (1963)

But Lortat, I'm not in the habit of attracting crowds.

Only it cannot be done any faster.

At the Piano with Gabriel Fauré (1963)

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