“In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.”
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer
“I played over the music of that scoundrel Brahms. What a giftless bastard! It annoys me that this self-inflated mediocrity is hailed as a genius.”
Diary entry for October 9, 1886, quoted in Nicolas Slonimsky, Lexicon of Musical Invective (1953), p. 73.
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