"Now there is no taboo; everything is allowed. But one cannot simply go back to tonality, itâ€™s not the way. We must find a way of neither going back nor continuing the avant-garde. I am in a prison: one wall is the avant-garde, the other wall is the past, and I want to escape."

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Source : "Ligeti" by Alex Ross, www.therestisnoise.com. June 12, 2000.

Gyorgy Ligeti

#Wall Quotes #Past Quotes #Avant Garde Quotes

“I wanted to be Laurence Olivier, basically, to be a great classical actor, and also be able to do modern things.”
“If even one of these unidentified UFOs turns out to be an alien craft, the impact on all aspects of our nation's culture-economic, political, personal-will be limited only by what is learned from an open, serious, objective study of the subject.”
“The first step in our walk of faith is to stop our own works and rest in God's love, wisdom and power.”
“There's more learning than is taught in books.”

Source : Lady Gregory (2013). “The Essential Lady Gregory Collection”, p.1179, eBookIt.com
“I love sad. Sadness makes you feel more than anything.”
“Agape is disinterested love. . . . Agape does not begin by discriminating between worthy and unworthy people, or any qualities people possess. It begins by loving others for their sakes. . . . Therefore, agape makes no distinction between friend and enemy; it is directed toward both.”
“Iâ€™m willing to meet my creator and answer every shot that I took.”
“In your reaction to an imagined attack on your country or an insult to its government, you draw closer to the herd for protection, you conform in word and deed, and you insist vehemently that everybody else shall think, speak, and act together. And you fix your adoring gaze upon the State, with a truly filial look, as upon the Father of the flock.”

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