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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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Amber Hurdle

"When I edit, I'm not from the school of Hello, I'm a genius, so everybody shut up. I'm from the school of Let's play it once in front of an audience, and then I'll tell you where it is going."

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

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"Genius is childhood recalled at will."

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"Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them."

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Amber Hurdle

"Genius is nothing but continued attention."

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Amber Hurdle

"An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius."

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Amber Hurdle

"I am the farthest thing from a computer genius."

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"Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence; intelligence is greater than philosobabble."

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"Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using misunderstood genius as an excuse to be a fool."

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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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"Music is organized sound."
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"I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena."
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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 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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"Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical."
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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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Edgard Varese
"Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes."
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