"The whole problem of the sound-work is distancing oneself from the dramatic."

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"The whole problem of the sound-work is distancing oneself from the dramatic."

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"I don't know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice."

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"It's very important to go through periods where you sound just rotten and you know it, and you have to persevere or give up."

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"Sounds travel through space long after their wave patterns have ceased to be detectable by the human ear: some cut right through the ionosphere and barrel on out into the cosmic heartland, while others bounce around, eventually being absorbed into the vibratory fields of earthly barriers, but in neither case does the energy succumb; it goes on forever - which is why we, each of us, should take pains to make sweet notes."

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"In contrast, traditional classical music starts from an abstract musical schema. This is then notated and only expressed in concrete sound as a last stage, when it is performed."

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"First, it doesn't surprise me that traditional music has experienced a kind of exhaustion in the 20th century - not forgetting that many musicians started to look outside the traditional structures of tonality."

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"Morally, the world is both better and worse than it was. We are worse off than in the middle ages, or the 17th and 18th centuries, in that we have the atomic menace."

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"The moment at which music reveals its true nature is contained in the ancient exercise of the theme with variations. The complete mystery of music is explained right there."

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"Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization."

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"The world has just got more dangerous because the things we use have got more dangerous."

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"It's ridiculous that time and time again we need a radioactive cloud coming out of a nuclear power-station to remind us that atomic energy is extraordinarily dangerous."

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"The impressionists, Debussy, Faure, in France, did take a few steps forward."

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"The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn't change."

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