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"Well I tried to, but I could never write anything that I liked or was worthwhile. I threw it all out and realized that I had to make a serious study- that my tastes were far more advanced than my abilities."
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"Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow."
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"I study to learn, to be an educated person."
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"Knowledge is like a vast ocean."
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"You need to study, to examine deeply the field you are interested in."
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"Perfect study is the key to being effective in the land of your calling."
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"Knowledge is enthusiasm to learn."
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"Learn, learn."
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"Semiotics is a general theory of all existing languages... all forms of communication - visual, tactile, and so on... There is general semiotics, which is a philosophical approach to this field, and then there are many specific semiotics."
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"I don't study; I create."
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"I wrote a lot in study hall to while away the hours."
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"I mean the public likes it more in Europe than they do here because the state supported organizations have felt that playing contemporary music was part of the education of the public."
Education
"An auditory scenario for the players to act out with their instruments."
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"I've known those pieces ever since I was about 16 or 17; I also at that time was taken to meet Charles Ives whom I got to know fairly well. He was the one who wrote a recommendation for me to get into college."
Time
"Well when I was young, when I was very young, when I was a little boy I don't remember the music I heard, but there was an article in the Brooklyn Daily written by my Aunt about how I could choose phonograph records."
Music
"It was only later on that I became more interested in older music."
Music
"In any case, Ives encouraged me to go into music even though he himself had such a hard time being a composer."
Music
"These wealthy people were very interested in contemporary music. They wanted to help diffuse it and get it to be known to other people."
Music
"Then, when the Depression came, all of this changed completely. Since that time, the entire public is of a very different sort and there was not so much support for contemporary music in a direct way."
Music
"When I was in Paris, all of the German refugees began to flow in and it was a very sad time."
Time
"My entire life has really revolved around music that was written about the time that I was born, 1908, to just before the First World War and shortly after it. This music I've always known, and it is that music that's most important to me."
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