One must have tradition in oneself, to hate it properly. ✨ Theodor Ado…

Theodor Adorno
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One must have tradition in oneself, to hate it properly. ✨ Theodor Adorno, Richard Leppert, Susan H. Gillespie (2002). Essays on Music, p.81, Univ of California Press
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