"What makes a specific quality or quantity of innovation retain its intense newness over the years?"

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"What makes a specific quality or quantity of innovation retain its intense newness over the years?"

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"If the work of art is to continue pursuing the vision of both being in and of the world but nevertheless in some fashion being more than just one more object to the mounting clutter, this is the specific point, I think, where this must be assured."

Art, Work, Vision, Being

"With respect to the respective French and German traditions you are no doubt correct, although I am reluctant to see individual achievement reduced to archetypes."

Achievement, Doubt, Respect, Traditions

"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."

Composer, Composers, Opposition

"What makes a specific quality or quantity of innovation retain its intense newness over the years?"

Quality, Innovation, Quantity, Years

"I am certainly not arguing for the de facto autonomy of the individual work, even though there is much to be said for making the attempt to see it in that light as one facet of the reception process."

Work, Light

"Actually, most things I say in public lead more or less directly to my own compositional practice, so I should be careful about generalizing lest they come back to haunt me."

Practice, Public

"I frequently compose out the entire metric structure of a piece in modified cyclic form, where each cyclic revolution undergoes some form of 'variation' much as if measure lengths were concrete musical 'material.'"

Revolution, Measure

"I would not say that I was, these days, a 'student' of philosophy, although in my youth I was quite deeply involved with certain aspects of the British pragmatists."

Philosophy, Youth

"As a necessary prerequisite to the creation of new forms of expression one might, I suppose, argue that current sensibilities respond uniquely to the notion of exhaustion as exhaustion, although that does de facto seem rather limiting."

Creation, Exhaustion, Expression

"I suppose that the scope and implications of such forces have rendered my personal accounting ritual pretty much obsolete. That's how things sometimes go."

Pretty, Ritual

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"Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides."

Victor Hugo, French Author

Quality, Mercy

"Greatness is the quality of time you are able to convert into the production of value."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Quality, Greatness, Time, Value

"It is not how fast a tree grows, but how well. It is not how big a fruit is, but how sweet."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Quality, Tree Growth, Fruit Sweetness

"It is the quality rather than the quantity that matters."

Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Roman Statesman

Quality, Quantity

"The best trees produce the sweetest fruits."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Quality, Effort, Reward, Achievement

"The amount of time you invest into your products determines the quality of the products."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Quality, Time, Investment, Products

"The quality of goods and services are always viewed as more important than the compensation."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Quality, Goods, Compensation, Value

"What is easy is seldom excellent."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

Quality, Excellence, Effort, Values, Achievement

"Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists."

Noam Chomsky, American Activist

Quality, Growth, Discontent, Fact

"Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

Quality, Concern, Improvement, Motives