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• Helen Gahagan:

  I never felt I left the stage.

• Helen Gahagan:

  In trying to make something new, half the undertaking lies in discovering whether it can be done. O

• Virgil Thomson:

  Let your mind alone, and see what happens.

• Virgil Thomson:

  You explain how it went, and as far as you can figure out how it got that way.

• Virgil Thomson:

  I don't care what other critics say, I only hope to be played.

• Virgil Thomson:

  I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for

• Virgil Thomson:

  I don't go around regretting things that don't happen.

• Virgil Thomson:

  I look at you and I write down what I hear.

• Virgil Thomson:

  Musicians own music because music owns them.

• Virgil Thomson:

  In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn