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  There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric

• Franz Schubert:

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• Franz Schubert:

  Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, makin

• Franz Schubert:

  You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth

• Franz Schubert:

  No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one a

• Richard Strauss:

  The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but it is the most difficult to play.

• Richard Strauss:

  I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.

• Richard Strauss:

  Never let the horns and woodwinds out of your sight; if you can hear them at all, they are too loud

• Richard Strauss:

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