"The first requirement for a composer is to be dead."

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Source : 'Je suis compositeur' (1951) p. 16

Arthur Honegger

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“The kids from the streets don't want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify with. They want to hear about the reality of their situation, not fairy tales. They don't care if it's ugly; they just want reality.”
“One of the characteristics of kitsch is precisely the neutralization of 'extreme situations', particularly death, by turning them into some sentimental idyll.”
“[W]here there is no law, there is no liberty; and nothing deserves the name of law but that which is certain and universal in its operation upon all the members of the community.”
“Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.”
“I think having children is the most amazing thing.”

Source : "Rachel Stevens Confirms Pregnancy". New! magazine interview, www.independent.co.uk. May 19, 2010.
“A jealous man only sees his own spectrum when he looks upon other men, and gives his character in theirs.”
“The one unforgivable sin is to be boring.”
“Get rid of words, and get rid of meaning, and still there is poetry.”

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