I dare suggest that the composer would do himself and his music an immediate and eventual service by total, resolute and voluntary withdrawal from… — Milton Babbitt Copy Share Image
I can't believe that people really prefer to go to the concert hall under intellectually trying, socially trying, physically trying conditions, unable to repeat something they have missed, when they can sit at home under the most comfortable and stimulating circumstances and hear it as they want to hear it. I can't imagine what would happen to literature today if… — Milton Babbitt Copy Share
Music is that great language where a lot can be said and little can be proven. — Milton Babbitt Copy Share Image