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"I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena."
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"Other composers have taken this particular technique much further than I in the meantime, with the result that the Law of Diminishing Returns has begun to apply."
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"I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena."
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"Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers."
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"When you have great songs that are going to live longer than the composers, everything you can do to bring those different elements and nuances out, serve the song."
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"The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics."
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"Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries."
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"Many composers today don't know what the human throat is."
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"Composers are always going back to the past."
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"I've heard though that there is a younger generation of tonal French composers who are reacting with vigour."
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"When I began, the guitar was en-closed in a vicious circle. There were no composers writing for the guitar, be-cause there were no virtuoso guitarists."
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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 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."
Time
"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."
Music
"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."
Science
"Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes."
Genius
"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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"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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