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"That was one of the big problems when I was at Harvard studying music. We had to write choral pieces in the style of Brahms or Mendelssohn, which was distressing because in the end you realized how good Brahms is, and how bad you are."
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"I can't read a note of music. I just do it all from ear."
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"Music is the highest form of philosophy of the conscious mind."
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"Music fills the infinite to give us infinite joy."
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"Music fills the soul with divine beauty of pure love and life."
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"The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days."
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"I think if we keep on doing good music and people like us and they buy the magazine because we are in the magazine then they cant basically hate us hopefully."
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"I have observed, too, that the people of the many countries that I have visited are showing an ever increasing interest in the classical and traditional music of their own cultures."
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"Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing."
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"When there is a voice in a piece of music, we tend to focus on the voice. That is probably something from when we were babies and we depended on hearing our mother's voice."
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"I think we're in a very low point of music right now."
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"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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"In any case, Ives encouraged me to go into music even though he himself had such a hard time being a composer."
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"These wealthy people were very interested in contemporary music. They wanted to help diffuse it and get it to be known to other people."
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"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."
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"Almost every one of my various zero numbered birthdays has had a big concert in London and often in Paris."
London
"When I was in Paris, all of the German refugees began to flow in and it was a very sad time."
Time
"The Quartets have been a major part of my work."
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"Right at the end of the war I wrote a piano sonata, which was written at a time when Sam Barber used to come down here and we used to have lunch together in a very nice old hotel that's now not there."
Time
"That was one of the big problems when I was at Harvard studying music. We had to write choral pieces in the style of Brahms or Mendelssohn, which was distressing because in the end you realized how good Brahms is, and how bad you are."
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"Since I'm allergic to various things, the army wouldn't accept me during the war, and I got into the Office of War Information, which sent music to Europe."
Music
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