Milton Babbitt Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“Music is that great language where a lot can be said and little can be proven.”
-- Milton Babbitt

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“The new limitations are the human ones of perception.”
-- Milton Babbitt

Source : "Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music". Book by Richard Kostelanetz, December 13, 1996.

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“I can't believe that people really prefer to go to the concert hall under intellectually trying, socially trying, physically trying conditions, unable to repeat something they have missed, when they can sit at home under the most comfortable and stimulating circumstances and hear it as they want to hear it. I can't imagine what would happen to literature today if one were obliged to congregate in an unpleasant hall and read novels projected on a screen.”
-- Milton Babbitt

Source : "Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music". Book by Richard Kostelanetz, 1996.

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“I dare suggest that the composer would do himself and his music an immediate and eventual service by total, resolute and voluntary withdrawal from this public world to one of private performance and electronic media.”
-- Milton Babbitt

Source : Milton Babbitt (2011). “The Collected Essays of Milton Babbitt”, p.53, Princeton University Press

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“Don't. Please, just let me hold you a little bit longer," he mumbled into my hair”

“Last question. Why do you love Della? - Braden Until Della walked into my life I didn’t understand the idea of love. I had never been in love and experienced very little love in my life. But I’d seen it once -Woods”

“The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.”

Source : A. E. Waite (2012). “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot”, p.2, Courier Corporation

“At a priesthood meeting... the strongest language in regard to Plural Marriage was used that I ever heard, and among other things it was stated that all men in position who would not observe and fulfill that law should be removed from their places.”

“Perhaps we should keep our monsters about us, lest we become them ourselves.”

“Act averse to nasty language and partial to fruity tea.”

“The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.”

Source : A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr

“I've always said I'm the worst representative of Muslim-Americans that's ever existed, because I've been inside more bars than mosques.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“You said everything I needed to hear. I'm hooked now. You have me. What are you going to do with me?”

“The problem with a politician’s quote on Facebook is you don’t know whether or not they really said it.”