To have a fine idea is nothing special…But to develop the idea well and make something great of it, that is the hardest part–that is art!
–Antonin Dvorak
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Freedom from Tyranny
I try to write as Stravinsky has written, and Picasso has painted…They were the men who freed music and painting from the tyranny of the purely personal. They passed from manner to manner as a bee passes from flower to flower. I try to do the same.
–Benjamin Britten
Unspoken Language
Music…can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.
–Leonard Bernstein
Philosophy of Music
I must despise the world which does not know that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
–Ludwig van Beethoven
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