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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000070.txt from 2007/03

From: "Edward B. Flowers" <flowerse@-----.net>
Subj: [DR-L] Quotation of the Day--Faking and Boasting
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 10:53:41 -0400

Quotation of the Day;

“I am sure you will give me the credit of having put a tremendous amount
of thought into the phonograph business after the many years that I have
been engaged on it. Not alone to the technical side of the business have
I given an immense amount of thought but also to the commercial side,
and I want to say to you that I have most excellent reasons for not
printing the name of the artist on the record. Your business has
probably not brought you into intimate contact with musicians, but mine
has. There is a great deal of ‘faking’ and press agent work in the
musical profession, and I feel that for the present at least I would
rather quit the business than be a party to the boasting up of
undeserved reputations.”--Thomas Alva Edison.

From: Randall Stross, "Edison the Inventor, Edison the Showman," /New
York Times/, March 10, 2007.

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