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• Besides merely some pleasure that we get out of the combinations of pitches together and lines, I think that there is some…
• The difference between the student and the born composer is he really hears the thing, and they have to stage it and…
• In writing music, the structure of each piece is a very important factor.
• A person improvising is sometimes very fortunate that just at that second things coincide.
• Because essentially Schoenberg was an extremely gifted man. And in spite of many of his theories and so on, when he really…
• When I was speaking about communicating, I meant that the listener - we have to reach the listener; otherwise, of course, you're…
• By the way, the point between rationality and what we would call the irrational is a very difficult point to establish. There’s…
• We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you simply cannot…
• But in the end, music is ultimately an aural art, pure and simple.
• By the visual pattern, but mostly I'm guided entirely by my ear, what I hear.
• Hopefully, I have a certain amount of what you call musical talent.
• I distrust anything that you don't hear.

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