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Edgard Varese

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

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"Of all the things in the world, I'm particularly amazed at, is the conviction with which the MIND, endorses an Idea, which is phenomenal, as it differentiates the Genius from Mediocre, or not to forget the human stupidity in particular!"

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"Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things."

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"If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators."

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"Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite."

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"An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs."
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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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"I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena."
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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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"Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical."
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"Music is organized sound."
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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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Edgard Varese
"Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes."
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