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Composers shouldn't think too much -- it interferes with their plagiarism.
Composers shouldn't think too much -- it interferes with their plagiarism.
To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.
Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.
No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.
Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
 Yet half the beast is the great god Pan,
 To laugh, as he sits by the river,
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 Yet half the beast is the great god Pan,
 To laugh, as he sits by the river,
  Making a poet out of a man.
   The true gods sigh for the cost and the pain--
    For the reed that grows never more again
     As a reed with the reeds of the river. 
May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.
May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.