Quote #3

If music is frozen architecture, then the potpourri is frozen coffee-table gossip... Potpourri is the art of adding apples to pears:

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  1. I am the slave of an internal power more powerful than my education.
  2. I find above all that the expression, 'atonal music,' is most unfortunate--it is on a par with calling flying 'the art of not falling,' or …
  3. I have never seen faces, but because I have looked people in the eye, only their gazes.

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