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- If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it…
- There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try…
- It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen…
- When we separate music from life we get art.
- I certainly had no feeling for harmony, and Schoenberg thought that that would make it impossible for me to write music. He said, 'You'll come…
- Which is more musical: a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school?
- For myself and my own experience now, I don't really need any music. I have enough to listen to with just the sounds of the…
- One need not fear for the future of music.
- After I had been studying with him for two years, Schoenberg said, ‘In order to write music, you must have a feeling for harmony.’ I…
- When I hear what we call ‘music,’ it seems to me that someone is talking. And talking about his feelings, or about his ideas of relationships. But…
- Let no one imagine that in owning a recording he has the music. The very practice of music is a celebration that we own nothing.
- Composing for the prepared piano is not a criticism of the instrument. I'm only being practical.
- A finished work is exactly that, requires resurrection.
- We need not destroy the past. It is gone.
- If this word "music" is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound.
- Everything you do is music, and everywhere is the best seat.
- My favorite music is the music I haven't yet heard
- When you make music you are acting as a philosopher. You can either do that consciously or you can do it unconsciously, but you're doing…
- There was a German philosopher who is very well known, his name was Immanuel Kant, and he said there are two things that don’t have…
- Music is edifying, for from time to time it sets the soul in operation.
- Music is a means of rapid transportation.
- I remember loving sound before I ever took a music lesson. And so we make our lives by what we love.
- Good music can act as a guide to good living.
- My favorite piece of music is the one we hear all the time if we are quiet.
- When I went to the analyst for a kind of preliminary meeting, he said, 'I'll be able to fix you so that you'll write much…
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