"The history of music is nothing more than the history of art-music or classical music, the music that was commissioned by aristocrats."

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Source : "Missed Opportunities". Pitchfork Interview, pitchfork.com.

Frank Fairfield

#Art Quotes #Classical Music Quotes #Music Is Quotes

“It would be very difficult to explain why the universe should have begun in just this way, except as the act of a God who intended to create beings like us”
“Document preparation systems will also require large screen displays.”
“I have long admired the visceral storytelling and moral complexity of John Vaillantâ€™s brilliant non-fiction about humankindâ€™s tragically ambivalent relationship with the natural world. Now he brings his abundant literary gifts to a debut novel set in a very real borderland in which human beings are themselves treated like animals. The Jaguarâ€™s Children is a beautifully rendered lament for an imperiled culture and the brave lives that would preserve it. You should read it.”
“Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.”
“In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.”
“The war of good and evil is mightiest in mightiest souls, and even in the darkest time the heart will maintain its right against the hardest creed.”
“You're still young. Being a true loser takes years of inaptitude”
“I don't dream a lot. But whenever I dream, I just dream about the day I just had or something like that. Mostly that's what I dream about. I dream about that current day. Other than that, I don't dream a lot.”

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