“When music technology takes the place of musicianship, it's time to pull the plug”
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“When music technology takes the place of musicianship, it's time to pull the plug”
“It requires more than mere genius to be an author”
“It is the glory and merit of some men to write well, and of others not to write at all”
“Between genius and talent there is the proportion of the whole to its part”
“People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents”
“Conciseness is the sister of talent”
“There is nothing new in art except talent”
“The university brings out all abilities, including incapability”
“Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly; devils fall because of their gravity”
“There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming”
“I am fit for nothing but literature”
“If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree, it had better not come at all”
“A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer”
“The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle”
“We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.”