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- The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church…
- I live neither in the past nor in the future. I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can…
- Consonance, says the dictionary, is the combination of several tones into a harmonic unit. Dissonance results from the deranging of this harmony by the addition…
- What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.
- Composers combine notes, that's all.
- All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
- I was...attacked for being a pasticheur, chided for composing "simple" music, blamed for deserting "modernism," accused of renouncing my "true Russian heritage." People who had…
- All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
- Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
- One's belief that one is sincere is not so dangerous as one's conviction that one is right. We all feel we are right; but we…
- The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation.
- I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
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