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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Love)
Daughter of love, touch and feel how my heart is racing.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Art)
Really superior artists judge without being prejudiced by school, nationality or period. If the artists of north and south exhibit different tendencies, it is good that they are different!
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You may have the universe if I may have Italy?
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I adore art. When I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear.?
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Art)
I deny that either singers or conductors can "create" or work creatively. This, as I have always said, is a conception that leads to the abyss.
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Let us turn to the past: that will be progress.
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The woman is fickle.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Books)
I read with reluctance the librettos that are sent to me. It is impossible, or almost impossible, for someone else to divine what I want.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Music)
I wish that every young man when he begins to write music would not concern himself with being a melodist, a harmonist, a realist, an idealist or a futurist or any other such devilish pedantic things. Melody and harmony should be simply tools in the hands of the artist, with which he creates music; and if a day comes when people stop talking about the German school, the Italian school, the past, the future, etc., etc., then art will perhaps come into its own.
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To copy the truth can be a good thing, but to invent the truth is better, much better.
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