"If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music."

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Source : Letter to Max Marschalk, March 26, 1896.

Gustav Mahler

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“Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.”
“I think that maybe forgiveness is like change - it comes in small steps. (256)”

Source : Mary E. Pearson (2009). “The Adoration of Jenna Fox”, p.256, Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
“My great-grandfather, Sam Aykroyd, was a dentist in Kingston, Ontario, and he was also an Edwardian spiritualist researcher who was very interested in what was going on in the invisible world, the survival of the consciousness, precipitated paintings, mediumship, and trans-channeling.”
“Your reality, Sir, is lies and balderdash and I'm delighted to say that I have no grasp of it whatsoever!”
“I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.”

Source : Tape recording to Joe Romersa, 1992.
“People who really appreciated animals always asked their names.”

Source : Lilian Jackson Braun (1986). “The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern”, p.78, Penguin
“To make certain that crime does not pay, the government should take it over and try to run it.”
“I am ready to serve the people of Afghanistan, particularly in order to restore peace. I will be ready to assume any duty at the service of my people.”

Source : Meeting with European legislators, June 11, 000.

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