Ferruccio Busoni quotes

“The function of the creative artist consists of making laws, not in following laws already made.”
-- Ferruccio Busoni

Source : Claude Debussy, Ferruccio Busoni, Charles Ives (1962). “Three Classics in the Aesthetic of Music: Monsieur Croche the Dilettante Hater”

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“Music is the art of sounds in the movement of time.”
-- Ferruccio Busoni

Source : "The Essence of Music" by Ferruccio Busoni, 1923.

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“Music was born free; and to win freedom is its destiny,”
-- Ferruccio Busoni

Source : Claude Debussy, Ferruccio Busoni, Charles Ives (1962). “Three Classics in the Aesthetic of Music: Monsieur Croche the Dilettante Hater”

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“Music is sonorous air.”
-- Ferruccio Busoni

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“Together with the puzzle, Mozart gives you the solution.”
-- Ferruccio Busoni

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“An artist’s job is to captivate… if we stumble into truth, we got lucky.”

“My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.”

“There is no justice in following unjust laws.”

Source : Aaron Swartz (2016). “The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz”, p.27, The New Press

“There is no justice in following unjust laws. It's time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture.”

“Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives.”

“A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.”

“Every creative act draws on the past whether it pretends to or not. It draws on what it knows. There's no such thing, really, as a creative act in a vacuum.”

“Speaking of sleeping bags, has anything ever had a less creative name?”

“Idealism does not represent a superfluous expression of emotion, but in truth it has been, is, and will be, the premise for what we designate as human culture...Without his idealistic attitude all, even the most dazzling faculties of the intellect, would remain mere intellect just like outward appearance without inner value, and never creative force....The purest idealism is unconsciously equivalent to the deepest knowledge...”

“On Positive Liberty: The business of the State is to use its organizing powers for the purpose of furnishing the necessary conditions which allow this people freely to unfold its creative faculties.”