Frederick Delius quotes
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“There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating.”
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“You can't teach a young musician to compose any more than you can teach a delicate plant to grow, but you can guide him a little by planting a stick in here and a stick in there.”
-- Frederick Delius -
“If a man tells me he likes Mozart, I know in advance that he is a bad musician.”
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“To all that he touched he gave a new meaning, a new color, a new outline, a new loveliness, and a new poignancy.”
-- Frederick Delius
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Source : Ballads for Broadbrows (1930) "Lines for a Worthy Person"
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Source : "Naţionalitatea în artă" ("Nationality in Art") by A. C. Cuza, Bucureşti: Cartea Romaneasca, 1905.
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“I don't know of a soul who packed more living into 72 years than Charles Lindbergh did.”
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“There is nothing like the occasional outburst of profanity to calm jangled nerves.”
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