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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.'"

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"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."

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"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."

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"Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Nothing, Will

"Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with."

Ovid, Roman Poet

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"Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand."

George Eliot, British Author

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"There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Nothing, Saying, Words

"Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal."

Karl Schlegel, German Philosopher

Nothing, Now, Philosophy

"Nothing proves that we are more than nothing."

Emile M. Cioran, Romanian Philosopher

Nothing,

"There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Nothing,

"There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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