"To the seeker after the new, or the sensational, to those who expect a sinister frisson from modern music, it is my melancholy duty to point out that all the bomb throwing and guillotining has already taken place."

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Source : "Music, Ho!". Book by Constant Lambert , "The Revolutionary Situation", p. 32, 1934.

Constant Lambert

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“The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.”
“I oppose a constitutional amendment against gay marriage.”
“Doubtless God Could Have Made A Better Berry, But Doubtless God Never Did”
“The genius of American culture and its integrity comes from fidelity to the light. Plain as day, we say. Happy as the day is long. Early to bed, early to rise. American virtues are daylight virtues: honesty, integrity, plain speech. We say yes when we mean yes and no when we mean no, and all else comes from the evil one. America presumes innocence and even the right to happiness.”
“Nothing can be truly great which is not right.”
“It is pleasant to recall past troubles.”
“One person's weed is another person's wildflower.”

Source : Susan Wittig Albert (2003). “AN Unthymely Death”, p.70, Penguin
“There must be hundreds of unsung heroes and heroines who first tasted strange things growing - and think of the man who first ate a lobster. This staggers the imagination. I salute him every time I take my nutcracker in hand and move the melted-butter pipkin closer.”

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