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Re: living baroque composers
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James R McFarland <[log in to unmask]>
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Harpsichords and Related Topics <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 1 May 2007 18:30:59 -0400
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On Tue, 1 May 2007 09:18:44 -0400 Michael Smith <[log in to unmask]>
writes:
> On Tuesday 01 May 2007 08:40, turpin d'isigny-ffytche wrote:
>  
> > This may even be a feature of an American Mentalité - "History is 
> bunk"

> 
> I think it was Henry Ford who said that. 





The real quote:  "History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't
want tradition. We want to live in the present, and the only history that
is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today." 
(interview with Charles N. Wheeler, Chicago Tribune, May 25, 1916) 


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