"The history of knowledge is a great fugue in which the voices of the nations one after the other emerge."

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A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed. Any prelude or fugue of Bach can be played at any tempo, with or without rhythmic nuances, and it will still be great music. That's how music should be written, so that no-one, no matter how philistine, can ruin it.

— Dmitri Shostakovich