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"Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth."
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"Nothing will shake a man-or at any rate a man like me-out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself."
"There are certain truths that occurs to us, which we cannot convey in words, but requires a personal experience to grasp more vividly."
"My truth could be very different than your truth."
"We can't even remotely fathom that whatever is ending for us is always more than an ending."
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"In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind."
"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."
"But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense."
"It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience."
"If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven."
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