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The second fiddle. I can get plenty of first violinists, but to find someone who can play the second fiddle with enthusiasm


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This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.




It is the artists of the world, the feelers and the thinkers who will ultimately save us; who can articulate, educate, defy, insist, sing and shout the big dreams.

It is the artists of the world, the feelers and the thinkers who will ultimately save us; who can articulate, educate, defy, insist, sing and shout the big dreams.



A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.



A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers.

A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers.



I can't live one day without hearing music, playing it , studying it , or thinking about it .

I can't live one day without hearing music, playing it , studying it , or thinking about it .



I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic.

I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic.



Children must receive music instruction as naturally as food, with as much pleasure as they derive from a ball game, and this must happen from the beginning of their lives.

Children must receive music instruction as naturally as food, with as much pleasure as they derive from a ball game, and this must happen from the beginning of their lives.





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I wonder what I can do about war. Is it the destiny of human kind to eventually wipe ourselves out with these weapons of mass destruction? Are we stupid to think that we can control them?

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Our goal is to create a beloved community," said Dr. King, "and this will require a qualitative change in our souls as well as a quantitative change in our lives.

Our goal is to create a beloved community," said Dr. King, "and this will require a qualitative change in our souls as well as a quantitative change in our lives.




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