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