“Three minutes then seemed a terribly long time limit.”
Gangubai Hangal (1913–2009) Indian singer
When she recorded on 78 rpm in 1959 in "Khyāl: Creativity Within North India's Classical Music" p. 193
“Three minutes' thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.”
Saturae of Juvenal (Cambridge University Press, [1905] 1931) p. xi.
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