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— Richard Strauss"I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer."
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I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.
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I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly to remind myself how much I appreciate Beethoven.
— Jascha Heifetz
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