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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “But the fact of the matter is that success comes in music or in the arts like success comes in every other form of human…”

On the recordAugust 5, 1962
But the fact of the matter is that success comes in music or in the arts like success comes in every other form of human endeavor by hard work, by discipline, over a long period of time.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at the White House Concert by the National High School Symphony Orchestra.

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