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" A symphony is no joke. "
Joke
Symphony
" Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully. "
Theme
Used
Harmony
" If there is anyone here whom I have not insulted, I beg his pardon. "
Insulted
Anyone
Beg
" I sometimes ponder on variation form and it seems to me it ought to be more restrained, purer. "
Seems
More
Ponder
" It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table. "
Superfluous
Hard
Table
" Straight-away the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God, and not only do I see distinct themes in my mind's eye, but they are clothed in the right forms, harmonies, and orchestration. "
Ideas
Me
Mind
" Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them. "
Jealousy
Trying
Enjoy
" We cling nervously to the melody, but we don't handle it freely, we don't really make anything new out of it, we merely overload it. "
Melody
Out
Make
" Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind. "
Reed
Inspiration
Inspirational
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