Wendy Carlos famous quotes

03-28-2025

A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.
-- Wendy Carlos

#Art #Nice #Surprise
As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.
-- Wendy Carlos

#Wiser #Grows #Humans
Composition has almost always been solitary.
-- Wendy Carlos

#Solitary #Composition
I'm really a very weak musicologist. Wish it weren't so, but there's only so much you can dig deeply into in one lifetime, as if you hadn't noticed.
-- Wendy Carlos

#Wish #Lifetime #Weak
What is full of redundancy or formula is predictably boring. What is free of all structure or discipline is randomly boring. In between lies art.
-- Wendy Carlos

#Art #Lying #Discipline
It's best to incorporate a broadly eclectic point of view, and let whatever moves you be your inspiration.
-- Wendy Carlos

#Moving #Inspiration #Views
You repeat things because they're like your personal obsessions
-- Wendy Carlos

#Obsession #Like You
I suppose I was affected by raw sounds and timbres more than a lot of other composers. Had I been involved with orchestral composing, I think the aspect that would have most endeared me to that field would have been the orchestration.
-- Wendy Carlos

#Thinking #Fields #Sound

Poems very seldom consist of poetry and nothing else; and pleasure can be derived also from their other ingredients. I am convinced that most readers, when they think they are admiring poetry, are deceived by inability to analyse their sensations, and that they are really admiring, not the poetry of the passage before them, but something else in it, which they like better than poetry.
Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. Having once experienced the mystery, plenitude, contradiction, and composure of a work of art, we afterward have a built-in resistance to the slogans and propaganda of oversimplification that have often contributed to the destruction of human life. Poetry is a verbal means to a nonverbal source. It is a motion to no-motion, to the still point of contemplation and deep realization.
While other creators make a big show of their art Mani Sir makes it look as though anyone can do what he does.
Art, however innocent, looks like deceiving.
Scrabble - The game is available in Braille. Thatâ€™s a nice fact. This makes me feel better about humanity for some reason. I canâ€™t really explain why.
My immune system has always been overly welcoming of germs. It's far too polite, the biological equivalent of a southern hostess inviting y'all nice microbes to stay awhile and have some artichoke dip.
But HBO is less interested in how many people are watching than in how much the people who are watching are liking the show. They didn't set up their business model to make writers happy. It's just a nice unintended consequence.
Now I've even gotten to running out to the fan buses that pass by our house, so I can talk to the people. I think I'm trying to gather fans, frankly. They're very, very nice people - they really understand. It's fun talking to them.
The difference between a gourmet and a gourmand we take to be this: a gourmet is he who selects, for his nice and learned delectation, the most choice delicacies, prepared in the most scientific manner; whereas the gourmand bears a closer analogy to that class of great eaters ill-naturedly (we dare say) denominated, or classed with, aldermen.
It's the mishaps that make it fun, and brings you the surprise.

Wendy Carlos famous quotes

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