In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.
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The public is always good.
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Truth is a great flirt.
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A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense.
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Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.
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Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words.
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Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion illuminates with His divine light.
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Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing.
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