"But Lortat, I'm not in the habit of attracting crowds."
— Gabriel Fauré

January 1, 1970

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Consoling a disappointed Robert Lortat in June 1914 after the pianist had given a sparsely attended recital of Fauré's work, as quoted in Gabriel Fauré: A Musical Life (2005) by Jean-Michel Nectoux and Roger Nichols, pp. 388-389