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Thomas Beecham in a 1910 caricature
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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  • Nat Shapiro, An Encyclopedia of Quotations about Music, Da Capo Press, 1981, p.173.