To see itself through, music must have idea or magic. ... Music with neither dies young though rich.
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Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.Ned Rorem
The Great don't innovate, they fertilize seeds planted by lackeys, they leave to others the inhaling of the flowers whose roots they've manured. A deceptive memory may be the key to their originality.
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If music could be translated into human speech, it would no longer need to exist.
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Divine fires do not blaze each day, but an artist functions in their afterglow hoping for their recurrence.
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All men are forced into one of two categories those with eleven fingers and those without.
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The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of.
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