Percy Grainger Quotes

• The worth of my music will never be guessed or its value to mankind felt until the approach to it is consciously undertaken as a pilgrimage to sorrows.

  Percy Grainger

  Sorrow, Mankind, Approach

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• I do not eat meat, I do not smoke, and I do not drink, and therefore, I do not feel the cold.

  Percy Grainger

  Meat, Cold, Drink

  "Percy Grainger". Book by John Bird, p. 253, 1998.

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• All my life, I have been sickened by everything connected with meat-, fish-, and poultry eating. As a child, I saw apparently nice, kind people wring the necks of fowls, and I thought it foul; and I wondered if I could ever exert any influence to help bring such unworthiness to an end.

  Percy Grainger

  Children, Nice, People

  "How I Became a Meat-Shunner". American Vegetarian, Vol. V no. 4, p. 4, December 1946.

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