"Music might be defined as a system of……" — George Crumb
"Music might be defined as a system of proportions in the service of a spiritual impulse"
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George Crumb
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28 Quotes by George Crumb
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I pick up the New York Times or Time and it's talking about the latest rock group, which I'm sure…
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I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic.
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Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the truly magical and spiritual powers of music arise from…
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As interesting as that music can occasionally be, I don't think it really replaces the other.
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I am optimistic about the future of music.
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I am certain that most composers today would consider today's music to be rich, not to say confusing, in its…
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I have observed, too, that the people of the many countries that I have visited are showing an ever increasing…
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If we look at music history closely, it is not difficult to isolate certain elements of great potency which were…
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I must confess, my Spanish is not so good - except I read a little, so I started with the…
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Writing seems to be more difficult as you move through the years.
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I believe that music surpasses even language in its power to mirror the innermost recesses of the human soul
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The rhythms of nature - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably…
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More Defined Quotes
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Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how…
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Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers…
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It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.
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Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human…
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The mental body, like the astral, varies much in different people; it is composed of coarser or of finer matter,…
— Annie Besant
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In relativity, movement is continuous, causally determinate and well defined, while in quantum mechanics it is discontinuous, not causally determinate…
— David Bohm
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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
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Why should a great and powerful nation like the United States allow its relationship with more than a billion Muslims…
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Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.
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The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.
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