"Sibelius justified the austerity of his old age by saying that while other composers were engaged in manufacturing cocktails, he offered the public pure cold water."

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“It is the only one in existence that might conceivably have been composed by God.”

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“Dear, lovely game of cricket that can stir us so profoundly, that can lift up our hearts and break them.”

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