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Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.
Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.
Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.
Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.
Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.
Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Every act, every deed of justice and mercy and benevolence, makes heavenly music in Heaven.
Every act, every deed of justice and mercy and benevolence, makes heavenly music in Heaven.
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.
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.
