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Best Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music Quotes by Edgard Varèse

Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music Quotes

“Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor.”

Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music

“Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical. Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor.

Why, Italian Futurists, have you slavishly reproduced only what is commonplace and boring in the bustle of our daily lives. I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm.”

Classic Essays on Twentieth-century Music

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“These poets here, you see, they are not of this world: let them live their strange life; let them be cold and hungry, let them run, love and sing: they are as rich as Jacques Coeur, all these silly children, for they have their souls full of rhymes, rhymes which laugh and cry, which make us laugh or cry: Let them live: God blesses all the merciful: and the world blesses the poets.”


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