Earle Brown quotes
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“It is not possible, given any degree of optimism and generosity in regard to people in general, to set a time limit on creative reflection or a limitation on the number of people involved in the creation.”
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“Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the given material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control.”
-- Earle BrownSource : "Classic Essays on Twentieth-century Music: A Continuing Symposium". Book by Richard Kostelanetz, Joseph Darby, Matthew Santa, 1996.
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“There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political.”
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“What is a good performance? It lies in the hands and head of a performer... the shortest way between two people is not a straight line.”
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“I'm convinced that in a healthy society, artistic norms should be constantly under question which is not of course, to deny the need for continuity.”
-- Earle Brown
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“Reflection is the lamp of the heart. If it departs, the heart will have no light.”
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“One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.”
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“A number of current theoretical explorations will turn out to be passing fancies...”
Source : "Inward Bound : Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World" by Abraham Pais, (p. 45), 1988.
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Source : A.A. Gill (2010). “Paper View: The Best of The Sunday Times Television Columns”, p.127, Hachette UK
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