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"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."
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"Reality spilled out into the alley like water from an overfilled bowl - as sound, as smell, as image, as plea, as response."
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Personal Development
"All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience."
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"Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?"
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"All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it."
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"Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation."
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"Observing and commenting, it is a piece of cake.Experiencing and sharing, that is a piece of work."
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"Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience."
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"God is only a great imaginative experience."
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"Experience, derived from scientific investigation, led to all the scientific literature in history. Likewise, experience, derived from religious transcendence, led to all the religious scriptures in history. It's never the other way around."
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"With action experience grows, with travel outlooks grow, and with reflections wisdom grows."
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"You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance."
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"If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?"
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"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."
Music
"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."
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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."
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"The fabric of existence weaves itself whole."
Existence
"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."
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"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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"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."
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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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