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I discovered that those who seldom dwell on their emotions know better than anyone else just what an emotion is.

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If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yours...more

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After I had been studying with him for two years, Schoenberg said, "In order to write music, you must have a feeling for harmony." I explained to him ...more

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Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear which remains unsatisfied and even uneasy until it hears something better. I am convinced...that ...more

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What is the purpose of writing music? One is, of course, not dealing with purposes but dealing with sounds. Or the answer must take the form of a para...more

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Which is more musical, a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school?Are the people inside the school musical and the ones outside...more

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So somebody has talent? So what? Dime a dozen. And we're overpopulated. Actually we have more food than we have people and more art. We've gotten to t...more

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nothing is accomplished by writing a piece of musicnothing is accomplished by hearing a piece of musicnothing is accomplished by playing a piece of mu...more