Quotes by Edgard Varese - Page 1

Music is organized sound.
Edgard Varese / Composer
Music
Music Is
Organized
Sound
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The present day composer refuses to die.
Edgard Varese / Composer
Composer
Present Day
Refuse
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Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical.
Edgard Varese / Composer
Alphabet
Illogical
Musical
Poor
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There are two infinities: God and stupidity.
Edgard Varese / Composer
Infinity
Stupidity
Two
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I rather like a certain clumsiness in a work of art.
Edgard Varese / Composer
Art
Certain
Clumsiness
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Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.
Edgard Varese / Composer
Inspirational
Born
Children
Genius
Minutes
People
Everyone
Few
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I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena.
Edgard Varese / Composer
Composer
Hair
Natural
Composers
Phenomena
Influenced
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A man is culpable in the eyes of society when he escapes from the jurisdiction of its mediocrity.
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Men
Eye
Mediocrity
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Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.
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Art
Artist
Belief
Contrary
People
Time People Ahead
Most
Time Art People
Ahead
General
Behind
Art Time People
Far
His
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Music is the most abstract of the arts and also the most physical....music is under two signs, the stars and the wine
Edgard Varese / Composer
Art
Stars
Wine
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Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor.
Edgard Varese / Composer
Science
Expression
Mean
Vigor
Infuse
Youthful
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I do not write experimental music. My experimenting is done before I make the music. Afterwards it is the listener who must experiment.
Edgard Varese / Composer
Music
Done
Writing
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The beginning of art is not reason. It is the buried treasure of the unconscious...that unconscious which has more understanding than our lucidity.
Edgard Varese / Composer
Art
Treasure
Understanding
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Men set themselves a goal, and having attained it, are satisfied and grow paunches. In their complacency they forget that their only future is now death.
Edgard Varese / Composer
Men
Complacency
Goal
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I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music.
Edgard Varese / Composer
Men
Adequate
Electrical
Handicapped
Instruments
Writing
Conceive
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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.
Edgard Varese / Composer
Dream
Contribution
Instruments
New World
Obedient
Rhythm
Sound
Whole
World
World Will New
World New Will
Inner
Lend
Sounds
Themselves
Whole New World
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A work of art must make the rules: rules do not make a work of art...I tell people I am not a musician; I work with rhythms, frequencies and intensities...tunes are merely the gossips of music.
Edgard Varese / Composer
Art
Gossip
People
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In every domain of art, a work that corresponds to the need of its day carries a message of social and cultural value. It is the artist who crystallizes his age ... who fixes his time in history.
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Art
Age
Needs
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There is an idea, the basis of an internal structure, expanded and split into different shapes or groups of sound constantly changing in shape, direction, and speed, attracted and repulsed by various forces.
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Groups
Ideas
Shapes
Sound
Speed
Structure
Attracted
Basis
Constantly
Idea
Changing
Different Shapes
Direction
Forces
Internal
Repulsed
Shape
Split
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I have just begun a work in which an important part is given to a large chorus and with it I want to use several of your instruments - augmenting their range as in those I used for my Equatorial - especially in the high range.
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Chorus
Given
Important
Instruments
Range
Use
Want
Work Your Important
Work Use Your
Begun
Work Important Your
Important Part
Large
Several
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No matter how consummate a work of art may seem, it is only an approximation of the original conception. It is the artist's consciousness of this discrepancy between his conception and the realization that assures his progress.
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Art
Discrepancies Between
Progress
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Of all the arts, music is the one communal art. It requires for its existence extensive cooperation and organization...Singing together the greatest choral music of all time is the surest way of developing in a community that sense of quality and reverence for beauty, which is the basis of a musical culture...Entertainment has its place in life just as candies and cocktails have, but health is not built on such a diet alone, nor culture exclusively on amusement.
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Art
Quality
Community
Organization
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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.
Edgard Varese / Composer
Dream
Music
Italian
Mean
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