"Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical." — Edgard Varese
"Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical."
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Edgard Varese
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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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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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I have just begun a work in which an important part is given to a large chorus and with it…
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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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