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"It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience."
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"It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience."

"In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind."

"A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity."

"There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life."

"If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?"

"Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. The meaning of 'God' may have a billion interpretations if there be that many souls in the world."

"One thing I am certain of is that, if I have done anything good in music, it was, first, because of my father, and second, because of my wife."
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