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• The collision of hail or rain with hard surfaces, or the song of cicadas in a summer field. These sonic events are…
• Art, and, above all, music, has a fundamental function, which is to catalyze the sublimation that it can bring about through all…
• The musical scale is a convention which circumscribes the area of potentiality and permits construction within those limits in its own particular…
• Music is not a language. Any musical piece is akin to a boulder with complex forms, with striations and engraved designs atop…
• Do you realize that we're meteorites; almost as soon as we're born, we have to disappear?
• The listener must be gripped and whether he likes it or not, drawn into the flight path of the sounds without special…
• To make music means to express human intelligence by sonic means. This is intelligence in its broadest sense, which includes not only…

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