"I don't approve of people who watch television, but I am one of them."
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"[Bach is the] reason I became a musician"
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"Mozart died too late rather than too soon."
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"A record is a concert without halls and a museum whose curator is the owner."
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"The prerequisite of contrapuntal art, more conspicuous in the work of Bach than in that of any other composer, is an ability to conceive a priori of melodic identities which when transposed, inverted, made retrograde, or transformed rhythmically will yet exhibit, in conjunction with the original subject matter, some entirely new but completely harmonious profile."
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"Once I turned pro, so to speak, I put away childish things forever."
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"I don't know what the effective ratio would be, but I've always had some sort of intuition that for every hour you spend in the company of other human beings, you need "x" number of hours alone. Now, what "x" represents I don't really know; it might be two and seven-eighths or seven and two-eighths, but it is a substantial ratio."
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