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Great thoughts ensure musical expression. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Control of vibrato helps your musical expression. -- James Galway
I wanted to play my violin and have my musical expression through the instrument. But then I was really young when I had my first opportunity to conduct. -- Gustavo Dudamel
I feel sorry for a culture that depends too much on delegating its musical expression to professionals. It is fine to have heroes, but we should do our own singing first, even if it is never heard beyond the shower curtain. -- Linda Ronstadt
Musical expression is never primarily national, but is personal and individual rather. It is so deep, so profound, that it goes beyond and below nationality and gives voice to the most private feeling. In music there is never exact heredity. Each man is an individual. -- Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Although music appeals simply to the emotions, and represents no definite images in itself, we are justified in using any language which may serve to convey to others our musical expressions. Words will often pave the way for the more subtle operations of music, and unlock the treasures which sound alone can rifle, and hence the eternal popularity of song. -- Hugh Reginald Haweis
The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions. -- Paul Klee
Have we not all about us forms of a musical expression which we can take and purify and raise to the level of great art?. -- Ralph Vaughan Williams
CDs are usually an hour long because that's the amount a CD could hold - not because that's the optimal amount of time for any given musical expression. -- Annie E. Clark

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