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If an opera cannot be played by an organ-grinder — as Puccini and Verdi's melodies were played — then that opera is not going to achieve immortality.
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Sir Thomas Beecham
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Nat Shapiro,
An Encyclopedia of Quotations about Music
, Da Capo Press, 1981, p.173.