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If I as a musician were to say, ”The state should support me so that I may be untroubled and free to compose,” some of your columnists and letter writers like Gladys and E.G. Lill who assure us, ”The arts have survived for thousands of years with and without government subsidy,” would undoubtedly tell me to drop dead-which is what happened to the real author of that plea

(Franz Schubert).