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🇺🇸Martha Graham

Education

1894–1991

"All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused."

"I was given so much advice. About how my hair should be, what I should wear, which competitions I should enter, what stuff I should play. None of that was relevant for me. I just had a kind of instinct."

"Sonata form could not be defined until it was dead. Czerny claimed with pride around 1840 that he was the first to describe it, but then it was already part of history."

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🇫🇷Pierre Schaeffer

Literature

musique concrète instrumentale

1910–1995

"Sound is the vocabulary of nature... noises are as well articulated as the words in a dictionary... Opposing the world of sound is the world of music."

"I am attracted only to music which I consider to be better than it can be performed. Therefore I feel that unless a piece of music presents a problem to me, a never-ending problem, it doesn't interest me too much."

"Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny."

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🇬🇧Richard Rodney Bennett

"from a tremendously vital white-hot fortissimo down to a trembling, limpid pianissimo so distant that it was difficult to sense whence the mysterious sound could be coming"

"Dartmouth is the place I’ve devoted my life to, so it’s very sad to see this kind of decline in the intellectual strength of the institution."

"I want to have a beneficial effect on your physiology, but it’s not my business what happens after that…It’s my gift to you."

🇺🇸Walter Raymond Spalding

Music

1865–1962

"It speaks to our feelings and imaginations, as it were by suggestion; reaching for this very reason depths of our being quite beyond the power of mere words."

"In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution."

"A prophet such as we could use again today, strong, zealous, angry and gloomy in opposition to the leaders, the masses, indeed the whole world."

"You must know the physiology behind the art. All the ‘pink clouds’ in the world won’t help you move through the passaggio."

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🇩🇪Johann Sebastian Bach

Music

Baroque music

1685–1750

"I have this to say about Bach's works: Listen, play, love, revere — and keep your trap shut."

"Compared with this art, Schoenberg’s Pierrot lunaire is lukewarm lemonade."

"In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of."

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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Music

1840–1893

"After the last notes of Gotterdammerung I felt as though I had been let out of prison."

"You play Bach your way and I'll play him his way."

"Methods of art are the product of the patient labour of generations."

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🇫🇷Charles-Valentin Alkan

🇵🇰Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

Music

1948–1997

"Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Quotes at nusratonline.com"

"The greatest work of the composer is often sublimation, that is, the deflection of energies, thoughts, occurrences, psychological and physical reactions, into socially constructive or creative channels."

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🇬🇧Harrison Birtwistle

Music

1934–2022

"I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it."

"It cannot be emphasized too strongly that art, as such, does not "pay," to use an American expression – at least, not in the beginning – and that the art that has to pay its own way is apt to become vitiated and cheap."

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