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Evelyn Beatrice Hall

"It is as the father of the Encyclopedia that Denis Diderot merits eternal recognition. Guilty as he was in almost every relation of life towards the individual, for mankind, in the teeth of danger and of infidelity, at the ill-paid sacrifice of the best years of his exuberant life, he produced that book which first levelled a free path to knowledge and enfranchised the soul of his generation."

Source : "The Friends of Voltaire". Book by Stephen G. Tallentyre, 1906.

Evelyn Beatrice Hall

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“Christianity makes of life a moral drama in which we play a starring role and in which the most ordinary events take on a grand significance.”
“I think of all music as existing in the substance of the air itself. It is the composer's task to order and make sense of sound, in time and space, to communicate something about being alive through music.”
“Sometimes, people can be extraordinarily judgmental and closed-minded to anyone different or special, which is why it's so hard for young people in this day and age to be comfortable enough in their own skin to not listen to the people picking on them.”

Source : "Even Performers Like Me Get Bullied" by Ariana Grande, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 9, 2012.
“I once hit Quentin on the head with my ball and chain.”
“All I knew when I moved to Nashville was that I wanted to make music in whatever shape and form I could.”
“In fact, the influence of Schoenberg may be overwhelming on his followers, but the significance of his art is to be identified with influences of a more subtle kind-not the system, but the aesthetic, of his art. I am quite conscious of the fact that my Chansons madÃ©casses are in no way Schoenbergian, but I do not know whether I ever should have been able to write them had Schoenberg never written.”

Source : "Ravel: Man and Musician". Book by Arbie Orenstein, p. 126, 1975.
“Giving into anger destroys the soul.”
“I naturally think in terms of comedy whenever I see anything because tragedy is so close to comedy, so I like to add the tragedy to the comedy or a little bit of comedy to the tragedy in order to make them both feel more real to me.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com

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