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Any great art work … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that wor...more

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Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

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

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Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long.

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Music, of all the arts, stands in a special region, unlit by any star but its own, and utterly without meaning ... except its own.