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Last year I gave several lectures on 'Intelligence and the Appreciation of Music Among Animals'. Today I am going to speak to you about 'Intelligence and the Appreciation of Music Among Critics'. The subject is very similar.
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Nothing but an icy loneliness that fills the head with emptiness and the heart with sadness.
About artist/model Suzanne Valadon at the end of their love affair
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The brain of the critic is like a shop, a big shop. Everything is to be found there: orthopaedics, science, bedding, arts, travelling rugs... The critic knows all, sees all, says all, hears all, touches all, stirs all, eats all, confuses all, and still keeps on thinking. What a man!!!
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I eat only white foods: eggs, sugar, grated bones, the fat of dead animals; veal, salt, coconut, chicken cooked in white water; fruit mold, rice, turnips; camphorated sausage, dough, cheese (white), cotton salad, and certain fish (skinless).
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I took to my room and let small things evolve slowly.
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Ravel refuses the Legion of Honour, but all his music accepts it.
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My doctor has always told me to smoke. To this advice he adds, "Smoke, my friend. If you don't, someone else will smoke in your place."
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When I was young, people used to say to me 'Wait until you're fifty, you'll see'. I am fifty. I haven't seen anything.
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The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry.
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The exercise of an art demands that we live in a state of the most absolute renunciation.
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An artist can be imitated; the critic is inimitable, and priceless. How could you imitate a critic, I wonder? In any case, the attempt would be pointless. We have the original, and that is enough for us.
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The Artist is really just a dreamer; the critic, on the other hand, has a sense of reality, especially his own.
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Jazz speaks to us of its suffering and we don't give a damn. That's why it's beautiful, real...
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When all is said and done, ce bon Debussy was something else again than all the others put together.
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I love Ravel deeply, but his art leaves me cold, alas!
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Ravel [...] occupies a considerable place in modern music. I knew him as a child and have always taken an interest in his work. I confess to my shame—that I didn't think him capable of publicly acknowledging that he owes me a lot. I was very moved by it.
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Born:
May 17, 1866
Died:
July 1, 1925
(aged 59)
Bio:
Éric Alfred Leslie Satie he signed his name Erik Satie after 1884 was a French composer and pianist. Satie was a colourful figure in the early 20th century Parisian avant-garde.
Known for:
Entr'acte (1924)
The Fire Within
Elisa, My Life
House with a Turret
Dancing in the Dark
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