"Comment: When I found out that music has structure to it, just like a bridge has, right away I began to get interested. . . . I found out there's plenty of difference between one symphony and another symphony. Beethoven, Mozart, and Brahms were the boys I liked. All three of them, they took themes that were simple, like an architectural figure, but they could get cathedrals out of them, believe me they could.-- James M. Cain, 'Career in C Major' (1946)"
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Comment: When I found out that music has structure to it, just like a bridge has, right away I began to get interested. . . . I found out there's plenty of difference between one symphony and another symphony. Beethoven, Mozart, and Brahms were the boys I liked. All three of them, they took themes that were simple, like an architectural figure, but they could get cathedrals out of them, believe me they could.-- James M. Cain, 'Career in C Major' (1946)
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