"I use cacophony to outrage people."
Richard Strauss
"I may not be a first-rate composer, but
I am a first-class-second-rate composer."
Richard Strauss
"Such an astounding lack of talent was never
before united to such pretentiousness."
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
on Richard Strauss
"Don't perspire while conducting. Only the
audience should get warm."
Richard Strauss
"Never look at the trombones, it only encourages
them..."
Richard Strauss
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