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I jokingly refer to the word "gourmet" as the "g" word.
~ Arthur Schwartz
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I'm a real food know-it-all.
~ Arthur Schwartz
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What I love about Brooklyn is there are more wonderful little joints than anywhere.
~ Arthur Schwartz
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For myself, I can only say that I am astonished and somewhat terrified at the results of this evening's experiments. Astonished at the wonderful power you have developed, and terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music may be put on record forever.
~ Arthur Sullivan
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I am terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music will be put on records forever.
~ Arthur Sullivan
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I could compare my music to white light which contains all colours. Only a prism can divide the colours and make them appear; this prism could be the spirit of the listener.
~ Arvo Part
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Silence is the pause in me when I am near to God.
~ Arvo Part
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The human voice is the most perfect instrument of all.
~ Arvo Part
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Tintinnabulation is an area I sometimes wander into when I am searching for answers - in my life, my music, my work. In my dark hours, I have the certain feeling that everything outside this one thing has no meaning.
~ Arvo Part
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I feel that all good art is powerful and simple.
~ Aulis Sallinen
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I really believe in melody.
~ Aulis Sallinen
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If music leaves any impression at all, it does so without regard to stylistic issues.
~ Aulis Sallinen
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These days people wallow in enormous masses of sound.
~ Aulis Sallinen
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As for my own music, I've never written a book about it. I'm not pedagogical... When I write an abstract piano sonata or a concerto, I write what I feel. I'm not a self-conscious composer.
~ Samuel Barber
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Feel
I Feel
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I can only say that I myself wrote always as I wished, without a tremendous desire to find the latest thing possible.
~ Samuel Barber
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Myself
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Tremendous
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I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being exactly that.
~ Samuel Barber
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American
Being
Better
Composer
Exactly
Guess
Had
I Am
Life
Wonderful
Wonderful Life
Worse
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I think that what's been holding composers back a great deal is that they feel they must have a new style every year. This, in my case, would be hopeless. In fact, it is said that I have no style at all, but that doesn't matter. I just go on doing, as they say, my thing. I believe this takes a certain courage.
~ Samuel Barber
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Hopeless
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I was 7 years old when I began composing. I began composing, improvising at the piano, the usual story.
~ Samuel Barber
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I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.
~ Samuel Barber
Doctor
Everything
Go
Princeton
Supposed
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I've had little success in intellectual circles. I'm not talked about in the 'New York Review of Books,' and I was never part of the Stravinsky 'inner circle.'
~ Samuel Barber
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Books
Circle
Circles
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Inner
Intellectual
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Never
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New York
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Review
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