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Foie Gras Entier

My life has been like a fairytale … Edith Piaf was my fairy godmother, Walt Disney was the genie and my Aladdin’s cave was the Vanguard recording studios in New York.

Jean-Jacques Perrey
The Godfather Of Techno

“With Keira, I just tell her every now and then not to pout and she’s wonderful.”

Joe Wright

The most precious collaborator I have ever had, I say it straightaway and don’t even have to hesitate, was Nino Rota — between us, immediately, a complete, total harmony … He had a geometric imagination, a musical approach worthy of celestial spheres.

In the world of cinema, the composer must be the master of all cultures.

Nino Rota

Concert by the Saint-Cecilia Society. I really listened only to the Eroica symphony. I found the first movement splendid. The andante is perhaps Beethoven’s most tragic and sublime composition, but only halfway through. Then came Cherubini’s “Consecration March”, which I heard with pleasure. As for Preciosa whether it was the heat or the brioche I had eaten beforehand, at any rate my immortal soul was paralysed and I slept all the way through.

Eugène Delacroix
Journal

I believe that music has a most important part to play in the art of cinema, which is a separate art form, only the cinema does not yet recognise the fact. Just as drama plus music made opera, so film plus music will make - what? I do not know, but I feel sure it will be something vital to us, something new.

Igor Stravinsky

Following the first London performance of Messiah, Lord Kinnoul congratulated Handel on the excellent entertainment.
“My Lord,” Handel replied, “I should be sorry if I only entertained them, I wish to make them better.”

Listening to Beethoven’s sonatas played by Isai Dobrowein at the home of Y. P. Peshkova in Moscow one evening, Lenin remarked: “I know of nothing better than the Appassionata and could listen to it every day. What astonishing, superhuman music! It always makes me proud, perhaps naively so, to think that people can work such miracles!” Wrinkling up his eyes, he smiled rather sadly, adding: “But I can’t listen to music very often, it affects my nerves. I want to say sweet, silly things and pat the heads of people who, living in a filthy hell, can create such beauty.”

Maxim Gorky
V.I. Lenin