Jean-Jacques Nattiez quotes
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“If we compel the composer to write in terms of what the listener is able to hear, we flirt with the danger of freezing the evolution of musical language, whose progressive development comes about through transgressions of a given era's perceptual habits."”
-- Jean-Jacques NattiezSource : Jean-Jacques Nattiez (1990). “Music and Discourse: Toward a Semiology of Music”, p.99, Princeton University Press
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“The border between music and noise is always culturally defined—which implies that, even within a single society, this border does not always pass through the same place; in short, there is rarely a consensus.... By all accounts there is no single and intercultural universal concept defining what music might be”
-- Jean-Jacques Nattiez
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“Is there a meaning to music? Yes. Can you state in so many words what the meaning is? No.”
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Source : Aaron Copland (1980). “Music and Imagination”, p.10, Harvard University Press
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“The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.”
Source : A. J. Liebling (2005). “Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer”, p.27, Macmillan
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“Some women flirt more with what they say, and some with what they do.”
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