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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.

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I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the varieties of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.

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He was a six and a half foot scowl.(on Rachmaninov)

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I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.