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• Giuseppe Verdi:

  You may have the universe if I may have Italy.

• Alfred Newman:

  Crime does not pay as well as politics.

• Ruggero Leoncavallo:

  This new art made a deep impression on me, and I began to study it ardently.

• Arnold Schoenberg:

  I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this

• Anne Dudley:

  You know, nobody eats in England. Three or four pints of English beer a night fills you. I can't sa

• Gian Carlo Menotti:

  A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.

• Virgil Thomson:

  I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good.

• Thomas Beecham:

  Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.

• Alexander Scriabin:

  My 10th Sonata is a sonata of insects. Insects are born from the sun... they are the sun's kisses.

• Joe Hisaishi:

  I don't want to work with directors who use music only to accentuate sound effects. I want to work