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Profession: Composer
Nationality: German
Birthday: June 11, 1864

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If you go to a second-rate place, and you are first-rate, it is very difficult to do first-rate work because you do not get that critical feedback you need for first-rate work on a daily basis.

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But no work from a first rate mind is ever really second rate.

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The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

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I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.

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So I may not have had a gothic childhood, but childhood makes its own gothicity.

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Anything will worry me. I may not get a check for the light bill off in time and I just get to worrying. I'm a worrywart.

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Playing characters allows me to do things I may not always do, while singing in concerts allows me to really find my own voice and grow.

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The rabbis and their wives may say whatever they wish in private conversations. I may not like their views, but a person is allowed to say anything in his or her own home.

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I may not remember the name of a book's author, but let it be clear, what I will not forget is the violence, the poverty and the desperation that Mexico is living through.

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