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Time is a great teacher but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

Hector Berlioz

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Berlioz, Hector. Personal letter. Nov. 1856.

Which is more musical, a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school?

John Cage

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Cage, John. "Communication." Composition as a Process lecture series. 1958, Darmstadt, Germany.

Birds do it, bees do it,
Even educated fleas do it.
Let's do it, let's fall in love.

Cole Porter

Let's Do It

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Porter, Cole. "Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love." Paris. Performed by Irene Bordoni. 1928, Music Box Theatre, New York City, NY, USA.

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Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus. Letter to Leopold Mozart. 8 Nov. 1777.

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Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus. The Letters of Mozart and His Family, edited by Emily Anderson. Springer, 2016.

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess!

Ludwig van Beethoven

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Beethoven, Ludwig. Letter to Bettina Brentao (Bettina von Arnim). 11 Aug. 1810.

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Beethoven, Ludwig. Beethoven's Letters. Dover Publications, 1972.

Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass?

Michael Torke

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Torke, Michael. "Sayings of the Week." Observer, 23 Sept. 1990.

It was great fun,
But it was just one of those things.

Cole Porter

Just One of Those Things

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Porter, Cole. "Just One of Those Things." Jubilee. Performed by June Knight and Charles Walters. 1935, Shubert Theatre, Boston, MA, USA.

It is only that which cannot be expressed otherwise that is worth expressing in music.

Frederick Delius

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Delius. "At the Cross-Roads." The Sackbut, Sept. 1920.

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"Don't Fence Me In." Hollywood Canteen. Directed by Delmer Daves, performed by Roy Rogers with the Sons of the Pioneers. Warner Bros., 1944.

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Porter, Cole. "Anything Goes." Anything Goes. Performed by Ethel Merman. 1934, Alvin Theatre, New York, NY, USA.

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Copland, Aaron. What to Listen for in Music. McGraw-Hill, 1939, ch. 2.

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Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus. Remark to Michael Kelly. c. 1786.

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Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus. Quoted in Reminiscences of Michael Kelly of the King's Theatre and Theatre Royal Drury Lane, written by Michael Kelly. Vol. 1, Cambridge University Press, 2011.

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Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus. Letter to his father. 11 Oct. 1777.

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Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus. "Letter to his father in Salzburg. Munich, October 11, 1777." Mozart's Letters, Mozart's Life, translated and edited by Robert Spaethling. W. W. Norton & Company, 2005.

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Wagner, Richard. Oper und Drama [Opera and Drama]. Leipzig: J. J. Weber, 1852.

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Wagner, Richard. Opera and Drama, translated by William Ashton Ellis. University of Nebraska Press, 1995.

Truly, I think I should go mad if it weren't for music.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

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Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Illyich. Letter to Nadezhda von Meck. c. 23 Nov. 1877.

The symphony must be like the world; it must embrace everything.

Gustav Mahler

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Mahler, Gustav. Quoted in Jean Sibelius: His Life and Personality, written by Karl Ekman. Alan Wilmer, 1936.