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When you want genuine music - music that will come right home to you like a bad quarter,
suffuse your system
like strychnine whisky,
go right through you
like Brandreth's pills,
ramify your whole constitution like the measles, and break out
on your hide like the
pin-feather pimples
on a picked goose,
- when you want all this, just smash your piano,
and invoke the
glory-beaming banjo!"

- Mark Twain

"Enthusiastic Eloquence"
San Francisco
Dramatic Chronicle, 6/23/1865

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