Harold C. Schonberg quotes
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“Last night at Carnegie Hall, Jack Benny played Mendelssohn. Mendelssohn lost.”
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“Anybody who gets away with something will come back to get away with a little bit more.”
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“By and large, musicians respect New York audiences, and also are greatly concerned about New York reviews.”
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“There is a love-hate relationship between New York and the rest of the country, but New York is unarguably the city that sets the standards, the city in which all who have anything to do with the arts dream of working and succeeding.”
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“When Callas carried a grudge, she planted it, nursed it, fostered it, watered it and watched it grow to sequoia size.”
-- Harold C. SchonbergSource : Harold C. Schonberg (1985). “The virtuosi: classical music's legendary performers from Paganini to Pavarotti”, Vintage
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“If you don't have sex and you don't do drugs, your rock 'n' roll better be awfully good.”
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Source : A.L. Kennedy (2010). “Original Bliss”, p.74, Random House
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“Creating something new is easy, creating something that lasts is the challenge.”
Source : Adam Braun (2015). “The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change”, p.171, Simon and Schuster
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