"I deny that either singers or conductors can "create" or work creatively - this, as I have always said, is a conception that leads to the abyss."

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As long as science fails to discover the sources of life, as long as, on sea or in the sky, there is an abyss that is resistant to mathematical reckoning, as long as mankind in its steady progress is ignorant of where it's heading, as long as a mystery exists for man, there will be poetry!

— Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer