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Margueritte Harmon Bro

  • Many people are inventive, sometimes cleverly so. But real creativity begins with the drive to work on and on and on.

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  • For her there were three kinds of composers: the poor ones, the great ones, and Bach.

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  • ... the most important thing any person can do is to get out of the light. Get out of his own light, I mean. Most of the time we let our shadows block off the sun. It takes so much not-doing to accomplish anything.

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  • ... Alan said that as a musician he was a good basketball player.

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  • ... sometimes what you want to do has to fail so you won't.

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  • It is our job only to make the music. The audience that should hear it will be brought to our music at the right time.

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Margueritte Harmon Bro, U.S. writer

(1894 - 1977)