Approximation Quote by Arthur Honegger

“I dream of a collaboration that will become so complete that, often, the poet will think as musician and the musician as poet, so that the work resulting from this union will not be the random conclusion of a series of approximations and concessions, but the harmonious synthesis of two aspects of the same thought.”

Arthur Honegger

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The public doesn't want new music; the main thing it demands of a composer is that he be dead.

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