"The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends."
"The hot hall full of painted girls and American soldiers is a saloon in some Western film. This noise drenches us, wakens us to do something else. It shows us a lost path."
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Source: A Thing or Two about Music. Book by Nicolas Slonimsky, 1948.
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