"A Composer who hears sounds will try to find a notation for sounds. One who has ideas will find one that expresses his ideas, leaving their interpretation free, in confidence that his ideas have been accurately and concisely notated."

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Source : Cornelius Cardew, Richard Barrett (2006). “Cornelius Cardew: A Reader”

Cornelius Cardew

#Ideas Quotes #Leaving Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Nepotism is the bedrock of social existence.”
“The NBA is fairy tale and real life mixed together.”
“Odd, the way the less the Bible is read the more it is translated”
“(After death.) So few people who come across, possess awareness of any kind. All they bring along with them are worthless values. All they desire is continuation of what they had in life no matter how misguided or degraded. . . Will those people ever progress, even with our help?”
“I feel better in my body now than when I was 20. Why not?”

Source : "The kiss of death" by Jon Henley, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2007.
“Good applied science in medicine, as in physics, requires a high degree of certainty about the basic facts at hand, and especially about their meaning, and we have not yet reached this point for most of medicine.”
“What is art but the denial of life?”
“I think as much as possible, an artist, if he has any kind of social or political concern, has toâ€¦expose as much as possible what he sees so that some people think about things that they donâ€™t normally think aboutâ€¦ [Art] should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further.”

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