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"Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the "given" material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control."
Earle Brown
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This fact, the surfacing of structure in an undeliberate action, is too big to take on here, but it was enough to convince me that the structuralists—the advocates of planning music before you hear or care what the plan gives you—were right: do not rely on unplanned music; it comes out as though it were planned, but planned by someone you cross the street to avoid.
Robert Ashley
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Is an animal less or more intelligent because it lives without clothes, central heating, and well, atom bombs ?
Jim Nollman
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Dare to be a Daniel,
Dare to stand alone,
Dare to have a purpose firm!
Dare to make it known!
Philip Bliss
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I don't think that it is good for the world of music to have everything come out of the same mold. God didn't place only roses on earth, or only lilies or only violets. He put flowers of many sorts and many colors here, the beauty of each enhancing that of the others.
William Grant Still
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I believe that most of what was said of God was in reality said of that Spirit whose body is Earth.
George W. E. Russell
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We who stand on the threshold of a new century can look back on an era of unparalleled progress. Looking into the future an equally bright prospect greets our eyes; on all sides fruitful fields of research invite our labor and promise easy and rich returns. Surely this is the golden age of mathematics!
James Lord Pierpont
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Come on,
Ease on down, ease on down the road.
Don't you carry nothin',
That might be a load.
Charlie Smalls
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Life is just a bowl of cherries,
Don't take it serious; it's too mysterious.
Lew Brown
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Collaboration is being open to each other's ideas and benefiting from each other's perspectives in an open way. Collaboration is all about rewriting and rewriting and rewriting and helping each other to constantly improve a piece. And, it's also about spurring each other on to doing really great, hard work — it's easier to do it in a collaboration than on your own.
Alan Menken
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There's an old mill by the stream, Nellie Dean,
Where we used to sit and dream, Nellie Dean.
And the waters as they flow
Seem to murmur sweet and low,
'You're my heart's desire; I love you, Nellie Dean.'
Harry Armstrong
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Do I have to tell you about the spiritual cannibalism of the culture, our culture, which has been bombarding us with ultrasensory overstimulation aiming to reprocess us into full-time consumption machines, stealing above all from us our time (not an inch of time without an imprint of message), and even our very sense of time (to be measured in lengths of no more than one message unit each) under the guise of entertainment, and even of 'art,' commoditizing the eternal, hyping the primal? Our time is the sine qua non of our identity. We need to take extreme measures to reclaim it for ourselves and each other.
Benjamin Boretz
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When discussing a march that he had composed for his regiment:
General:
Isn't it a little fast, Korngold? The men can't march to that.
Korngold:
Ah yes, well, you see Sir, this was composed for the retreat.
Erich Korngold
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The only thing wrong with performing was that you couldn't phone it in.
Robert Mitchum
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Form is a theatrical event of a certain length, and the length itself may be unpredictable.
Christian Wolff
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So bless, you my darling, my angel,
Heaven is mine and life is divine with you.
Eddie Lane
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Composing a piece of music is very feminine. It is sensitive, emotional, contemplative. By comparison, doing housework is positively masculine.
Barbara Kolb
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My boyfriend dumped me. My best friend won't talk to me. My future is in a garbage can. Everything has turned to crap. Can you please just let me be a sullen teenager. just this once
J. J. Johnson
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All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.
Thelonious Monk
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What we ask of music, first and last, is that it communicate experience - experience of all kinds, vital and profound at its greatest, amusing or entertaining at another level.
Roger Sessions
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Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?
Richard Rodgers
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They're creepy and they're kooky,
Mysterious and spooky,
They're all together ooky,
The Addams Family.
Vic Mizzy
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Autumn in New York Is often mingled with pain. Dreamers with empty hands May sigh for exotic lands; It's Autumn in New York, It's good to live it again.
Vernon Duke
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Nowadays, all students have access to and indeed most own computers and are comfortable with the software used to compose music. There are probably too many musical options for them now and the trick is to limit the number of musical ideas so as to develop structure and continuity in their work.
Jon Appleton
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Resist me—
Make me strong.
For since I cannot be what you will
I shall always be that much more so
What I will.
Sun Ra
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