"Having decided to follow my own intuitive path I began to write music on the basis of harmonized spoken words, for new instruments and in new scales."

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Source : Harry Partch (2009). “Genesis of a Music: An Account of a Creative Work, Its Roots, and Its Fulfillments”, p.6, Da Capo Press

Harry Partch

#Writing Quotes #Path Quotes #Scales Quotes

“No one you love is ever truly lost.”
“As long as you've got serious investors who wish to put money into football, I applaud. It proves that football is attractive. What upsets me, what I find scandalous, is when clubs accept fools.”
“The extent to which YOU take responsibility over something is the extent to which YOU take control over it.”
“Very interesting for an old duffer like me to try his hand at something new. If I don't do that once in a while, I might just turn into a fossil, you know!”
“So many, though reluctant to admit it. Shun clever men, and rather suffer fools.”
“The first picture of his I ever saw was during a lecture at the Rhyl camera club. I was 16 and the speaker was Emrys Jones. He projected the picture upside down. Deliberately, to disregard the subject matter to reveal the composition. It's a lesson I've never forgotten.”
“American GIs don't fight this unjust immoral and illegal war of Johnson's.”
“I don't write for Christians. I write for people. I write so that if a Christian hears my music, they're going to be encouraged because I'm writing from the Christian worldview.”

Source : Source: www.beliefnet.com

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