"Reviewing music or reviewing anything is a writing job. It's nice if you are experienced in the field you are writing about, but writing is what you are doing."

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Source : Virgil Thomson (1984). “A Virgil Thomson reader”, Plume

Virgil Thomson

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“His background and knowledge can't be transplanted overnight, ... I'd make a point that unless you sat on the throne, you don't know what it's like to be king. In reality there are a lot of things that you do and people you influence that other people don't see and that impact is there for the city.”
“Every mystery ever solved had been a puzzle from the dawn of the human species right up until someone solved it.”
“I can't think of any sorrow in the world that a hot bath wouldn't help, just a little bit.”
“I wasn't in any way a kind of soothsayer or not surprised when Sept. 11 happened. I was absolutely shocked.”
“The parent knows that the child cannot be artificially motivated to learn; they know that he is already motivated by the strongest driving force on earth: his inner intent.”
“When a lot of people are calling you crazy: you're either crazy, or you're onto something.”
“I don't care what people say. My music's, my music.”
“The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?”

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