"I know what I want, and I know what I meant when I wrote this. After all, I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer."
— Richard Strauss

January 1, 1970

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Quoted in Michael Kennedy: "Richard Strauss" (1995), Oxford University Press. Pg 111.