Geoffrey Tozer's death is a national tragedy. For the Australian arts and Australian music, losing Tozer is like Canada having lost Glenn Gould, or France, Ginette Neveu. It is a massive cultural loss. The kind of loss people felt when Germany lost Dresden.
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One tires of combat, although I can still throw a punch, you know.
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I have said before, you don't expect conservative parties to believe in much, but you do expect them to believe in thrift.
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When one has been touched by the stellar power and ethereal playing of a sublime musician, one is lifted, if only briefly, to a place beyond the realm of the temporal.
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If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard enough is not a humility.
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The more we view the country through the prism of Aboriginality, the more likely we are to get the angle right.
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