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My music must have been dormant in the breasts of the people, and it was my good fortune to give expression to what all felt. There was a power in this beyond me. My music is my religion. Certainly, when I am composing 1 am in another atmosphere. I would feel lost and neglected without him. He is my meat and drink. I do not defend my music, but I will say that I should like to make acquairitance with music which is truer to the laws of harmony, which has less banality about it, and which answers more completely to the purpose in view than that which I have been able to offer the public.
If he inflates himself he is lcet. The idol is never able to strike back, yon know, no matter what blows may be given him. My thought always is, both with regard to my band and my operas, to give the best. I will have a still better next year.
I do not know how to accomplish this, but I am after an ideal. With my reputation it has been said that 1 could make more money with a cheaper organization. I desire to give them the best. I have the most expensive organization in the world to-day. With regard to my comic operas, I have been fortunate in this respect that I have made a success in several works, and not in one only, as js frequently the case.
