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Guillaume de Machaut

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Qui de sentement ne fait,
Son dit et son chant contrefait.
--
He who makes songs without feeling Spoils both his words and his music.
--
"Remede de Fortune", line 407; translation from Josiah Fisk and Jeff Nichols (eds.) Composers on Music (Boston, Northeastern University Press, 1997) p. 5.

 
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