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A city life for me!
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The musical equivalent of the towers of St Pancras Station
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Too much counterpoint; what is worse, Protestant counterpoint.
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A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.
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The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought.
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What can you do with it? It's like a lot of yaks jumping about."
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I found it as alluring as a wayward woman and determined to tame it.
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The grand tune is the only thing in music that the great public really understands.
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If I cannot sing a work, I cannot conduct it.
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No composer has written as much as 100 bars of worthwhile music since 1925.
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