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“The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent'.”
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“Self-discovery is a slower process but a more natural one.”
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“The word LISTEN contains the same letters as the word SILENT.”
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“Perhaps there is not so great a desire in old age for the abysses of melancholy, for the most ineluctable levels of complexity or for superhuman perfection.”
― Music, Sense and Nonsense: Collected Essays and Lectures
― Music, Sense and Nonsense: Collected Essays and Lectures
“If I belong to a tradition it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what he should do and not the performer telling the piece what it should be like, or the composer what he ought to have composed.”
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“Mozart is made neither of porcelain, nor of marble, nor of sugar.”
― Music, Sense and Nonsense: Collected Essays and Lectures
― Music, Sense and Nonsense: Collected Essays and Lectures
