"I have just begun a work in which……" — Edgard Varese
"I have just begun a work in which an important part is given to a large chorus and with it I want to use several of your instruments - augmenting their range as in those I used for my Equatorial - especially in the high range."
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14 Quotes by Edgard Varese
Edgard Varese has 14 quotes on this site.
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The present day composer refuses to die.
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I do not write experimental music. My experimenting is done before I make the music. Afterwards it is the listener…
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Music is organized sound.
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Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.
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I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate…
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I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena.
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Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor.
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Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical.
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I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected…
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There is an idea, the basis of an internal structure, expanded and split into different shapes or groups of sound…
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Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.
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Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical. Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science…
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More Augmenting Quotes
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The mob that hounded Christ from Jerusalem to "the place of a skull" has never been dispersed, but is augmenting…
— Thomas De Witt Talmage
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All this creative power of the mind amounts to no more than the faculty of compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing…
— David Hume
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... The idea of God, as meaning an infinitely intelligent, wise and good Being, arises from reflecting on the operations…
— David Hume
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... superstitions, which, being unable to defend themselves on fair ground, raise these intangling brambles to cover and protect their…
— David Hume
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. . . hummings and clickings could be heard-the sounds attendant to the flow of electrons, now augmenting one maze…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Improved perception of our somatic feelings not only gives us greater knowledge of ourselves but also enables greater somatic skill,…
— Richard Shusterman
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I hate everything that merely instructs me without augmenting or directly invigorating my activity.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Before you go alter body, do some research and find out how many women have major life-threatening complications from nose…
— Halle Berry
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And ultimately the people who produce my records, they know that they're here to serve the purpose of me expressing…
— Alanis Morissette
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It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active…
— Adam Smith
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Every patient is a consumer, and every consumer is a potential patient. What NantWorks is doing is building the world…
— Patrick Soon-Shiong
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A huge dollar bill is the most accurate way to teach children the real motto of the United States: In…
— Kyrsten Sinema
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