"So long as we refuse to include lottery tickets among the symphonies, or medical bulletins among the overtures, we must refrain from treating the emotions as an aesthetic monopoly of music in general or a certain piece of music in particular."

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Source : Eduard Hanslick (1957). “Vom Musikalisch-Schönen”, Bobbs-Merrill Company

Eduard Hanslick

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“The one awakened liberated sees all things as one unseparated.”
“Don't take too seriously all that the neighbors say. Don't be overawed by what the experts say. Don't be afraid to trust your own common sense.”
“Here's the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.”
“When we got knocked out against Porto in the Champions League, I only slept two hours that night. I was not a nice person to be with after that match. I was struggling to get the result out of my system.”
“You can't sow an apple seed and expect to get an avocado tree. The consequences of your life are sown in what you do and how you behave.”
“My two brothers and I grew up in the theater, going everywhere with my parents when they performed.”
“While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river; only the landscape on either bank seems to change.”

Source : Max Muller (1912). “Memories”
“I'm not an athlete. I'm a professional baseball player.”

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