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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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"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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"Composers are not all good conductors."
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"Pianists call me a composer, composers call me a pianist. The classicists think me a futurist, and the futurists call me a reactionary."
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"Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere."
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"Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast."
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"I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly to remind myself how much I appreciate Beethoven."
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"I began like all composers, writing for small groups. Chamber groups."
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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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"Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully."
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"Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical."
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"I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena."
Composer
"Music is organized sound."
Music
"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."
Work
"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."
Thought
"An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs."
Time
"Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes."
Genius
"Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor."
Science
"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
"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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