"If... [Alban] Berg departs so radically from tradition, through his substitution of a symmetrical partitioning of the octave for the asymmetrical partionings of the major/minor system, he departs just as radically from the twelve-tone tradition that is represented in the music of Schoenberg and Webern, for whom the twelve-tone series was always an integral structure that could be transposed only as a unit, and for whom twelve-tone music always implied a constant and equivalent circulation of the totality of pitch classes."

Source : "The Listening Composer". Book by George Perle, p. 98, 1990.

George Perle

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“The whole of the world could be deduced from the smallest grain of sand, if one studied it closely enough.”

Source : Christopher Paolini (2012). “Inheritance Deluxe Edition (The Inheritance Cycle, Book 4)”, Knopf Books for Young Readers
“... there are few things that can reconcile us fully to our parting with a world of which the longest life can see so little and whose beauties have so extraordinary a variety.”
“Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.”

Source : "Self-Consciousness: Memoirs". Book by John Updike, 1989.
“Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.”
“As I said, my parents loved that when they came to America, if you worked hard, the only things that could stop you were the limits you placed on yourself.”

Source : "Dealing With Obama Is ‘Hardest Part Of My Job’". Republican Convention Speech, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 28, 2012.
“For Berkeley (normal) vision is a language whereby God tells us about the tangible world. But prior to having experience of the tangible world, the visual language would be as meaningless as an utterly alien language. It would convey no meaning to the sighted mind.”
“The hossanas of the multitude can never bring satisfaction to the discerning. Yet there exist those chamaleons of popularity who find their joy, not in the sweet breath of Apollo, but in the smell of the crowd. And not in mind: Do not be taken in by what are miracles to the populace, for the ignorant do not rise above marveling. Thus the stupidity of a crowd is lost in admiration, even as the brain of an individual uncovers the trick.”
“Depression occurs when you are not being yourself.”

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