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• Any chord can follow any chord.
  • also attributed to Max Reger
• Génie oblige! (Genius obliges!)
  • one of Liszt's life-mottos
• When the Tsar speaks everyone should remain silent.
  • When asked by Nicholas I why he suddenly stopped playing the piano during the final concert of his first Russian tour. Quite a suicidal move in the Russian Empire of the 1840s!
• "le piano concentre et résume en lui l'art tout entier..."
• What is our life but a series of preludes to that unknown song of which death sounds the first solemn note?
  • from the preface to Les Préludes