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Old 11-25-2014, 06:12 PM   #149 (permalink)
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One work of monumental pretentiousness can undo a lifetime of real work.
I don't particularly care if an artist is pretentious, so long as they make good music. I'd rather listen to pretentious but entertaining, rather than grounded but boring.
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There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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