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It is only that which cannot be expressed otherwise that is worth expressing in music. — Frederick Delius

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It is only that which cannot be expressed otherwise that is worth expressing in music.

Frederick Delius
1920
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Limits of languagePower of musicMusic
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Magazine
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1920
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Frederick Delius
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Delius. "At the Cross-Roads." The Sackbut, Sept. 1920.

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