"Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me."

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Source : Jean Genet (2003). “Prisoner of Love”, New York Review of Books

Jean Genet

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