"I dare suggest that the composer would do himself and his music an immediate and eventual service by total, resolute and voluntary withdrawal from this public world to one of private performance and electronic media."

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Source : Milton Babbitt (2011). “The Collected Essays of Milton Babbitt”, p.53, Princeton University Press

Milton Babbitt

#Media Quotes #Withdrawal Quotes #World Quotes

“I don't relate to that angst-y kid who hates their parents because they were horrible. It's just not my life and it's not the life of a lot of my friends.”
“The proper education of a man decides his welfare, but the interests of a whole family are secured by the correct education of a woman.”
“Riches have never yet given anybody either peace or rest.”
“I am a fairly optimistic person... If everything that I'm involved in now suddenly fell away, I know I would cope because I've coped before.”
“Ignorance is always ready to admire itself. Procure yourself critical friends.”
“Don't be 'consistent,' but be simply true.”
“There is no such thing as helplessness. It's just another word for giving up.”
“I think people have a tendency to read into more than there is.”

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