Wendy Carlos quotes
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“A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.”
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“As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.”
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“Composition has almost always been solitary.”
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“I'm really a very weak musicologist. Wish it weren't so, but there's only so much you can dig deeply into in one lifetime, as if you hadn't noticed.”
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“What is full of redundancy or formula is predictably boring. What is free of all structure or discipline is randomly boring. In between lies art.”
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“It's best to incorporate a broadly eclectic point of view, and let whatever moves you be your inspiration.”
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“You repeat things because they're like your personal obsessions”
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“I suppose I was affected by raw sounds and timbres more than a lot of other composers. Had I been involved with orchestral composing, I think the aspect that would have most endeared me to that field would have been the orchestration.”
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Source : A. J. Jacobs (2004). “The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World”, p.305, Simon and Schuster
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Source : A. J. Jacobs (2012). “Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection”, p.72, Simon and Schuster
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Source : Abraham Hayward (1858). “Biographical and Critical Essays: Reprinted from Reviews, with Additions and Corrections”, p.391
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“It's the mishaps that make it fun, and brings you the surprise.”
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