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“The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar.”

“I’m gonna put a curse on you and all your kids will be born completely naked.”

Thomson was a Kansas City native who studied at Harvard and eventually moved to Paris where he became friends with artistic luminaries like Pablo Picasso, Aaron Copland, Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein, who the libretto for Thomson’s opera “Four Saints in Three Acts.” Wherever Thomson went, however, he always took Kansas City with him, and the sound of the prairie is heard in many of his works.

“I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good.”

“I have observed that people who are moved by music are more sensitive to all manifestations of life”

According to BBC Music Magazine, the Slovak soprano is ranked number seven on the list of 20 Greatest Sopranos of the Recorded Era.