Virgil Thomson Quote

I got myself into a lovely little—shall we say controversy—with André Breton, by pointing out that the discipline of spontaneity, which he was asking his surrealist neophytes to adopt, was new for language but something that composers had been practicing for centuries.

Virgil Thomson (1981). A Virgil Thomson Reader, p.548. New York: E.P. Dutton Inc. See: André Breton