"I have sometimes been told that my music is 'difficult' for the listener."

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Source : Roger Sessions (2015). “Roger Sessions on Music: Collected Essays”, p.169, Princeton University Press

Roger Sessions

#Sometimes Quotes #Difficult Quotes #Music Is Quotes

“While men define themselves by deeds, women simply "are" beauty, grace, faith and goodness. Men tend to be rational and objective, women subjective, intuitive and emotional.”
“Prophets are those who take life as it is and expand it. They refuse to shrink a vision of tomorrow to the boundaries of yesterday.”
“Apparently people don't like the truth, but I do like it; I like it because it upsets a lot of people. If you show them enough times that their arguments are bullshit, then maybe just once, one of them will say, 'Oh! Wait a minute - I was wrong.' I live for that happening. Rare, I assure you”

Source : Lemmy Kilmister (2012). “White Line Fever: Lemmy: The Autobiography”, p.133, Simon and Schuster
“When I make a photograph I want it to be an altogether new object, complete and self-contained, whose basic condition is order (unlike the world of events and actions whose permanent condition is change and disorder).”

Source : Aaron Siskind, Henry Holmes Smith, Thomas B. Hess (1965). “Aaron Siskind, photographer”
“I'm a movie nut. I go to the movies probably twice a week, and if I'm not doing anything at night, I'm usually watching a movie or two.”
“I want a big fat woman with meat shaking on her bones.”
“When you don’t have resources, you become resourceful.”
“I think sometimes there are negative connotations for those who have a business mind as well as a creative side.”

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