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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In some century to come, when the school children will whistle popular tunes in quarter-tones-when the diatonic scale will be as obsolete as the pentatonic is now-perhaps then these borderland experiences may be both easily expressed and readily recognized.Charles Ives
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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The word 'beauty' is as easy to use as the word 'degenerate.' Both come in handy when one does or does not agree with you.
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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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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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The fabric of existence weaves itself whole.
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