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Edgard Varese

"Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes."

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"Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes."

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"I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and destroying it essentially! I like the idea of bringing it down to earth a bit - and even a bit lower than that."

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"All the geniuses and greats are really just nerds with experience."

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"In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous."

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"I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be."

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"Genius is when you strike a chord accidently, and the ensuing music is beyond your control."

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"Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old!"

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"Since when was genius found respectable?"

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"I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?"

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"As a bull market continues, almost anything you buy goes up. It makes you feel that investing in stocks is a very easy and safe and that you're a financial genius."

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"I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm."
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"I have just begun a work in which an important part is given to a large chorus and with it I want to use several of your instruments - augmenting their range as in those I used for my Equatorial - especially in the high range."
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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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"Music is organized sound."
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"Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical."
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"An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs."
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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 electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music."
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"There is an idea, the basis of an internal structure, expanded and split into different shapes or groups of sound constantly changing in shape, direction, and speed, attracted and repulsed by various forces."
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Edgard Varese
"Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes."
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