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I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.

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Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.

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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.

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Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.

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Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos?

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Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it.

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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.

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What force is more potent than love?

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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

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Biography

Nationality: Russian

Type: Composer

Born: June 17th, 1882

Died: April 6th, 1971

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