There is not one thing that music does which does not say something about how a person should … - Eli Siegel

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It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness.

Eli Siegel

There is not one thing that music does which does not say something about how a person should organize himself, too.

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To see the outside world as the same stuff as our most secret or unknown thoughts is a fine necessity.

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The world, art, and self explain each other: each is the aesthetic oneness of opposites.

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If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake.

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The most important thing in industry is the person who does the industry, which is the worker. . . Labor is the only source of wealth.

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Music for a long time has been telling what the world is like. What music has to say now, in a manner that has both logic and emotion in it, is that the world has a structure persons could like; be stronger by. . . . [If] the world is the oneness of opposites - and music says it is - the world is given an everlastingly sensible basis; for what could be more sensible that to be calm and forceful at once, reposeful and intense at once?

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