"It might be argued that genuine spontaneity is not really possible or desirable so long as printed scores of great works exist. All modern musicians are, for better or worse, prisoners of Gutenberg."

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Source : "Music View; Whatever Happened To Spontaneity In Performance?" by Donal Henahan, www.nytimes.com. May 13, 1984.

Donal Henahan

#Long Quotes #Musician Quotes #Gutenberg Quotes

“Do yoga in order to know what to do when you're not doing yoga.”
“For the past 50 years, we've been fishing the seas like we clear-cut forests. It's hard to overstate the destruction. Ninety percent of large fish, the ones we love - the tunas, the halibuts, the salmons, swordfish - they've collapsed.”
“People are going to wake up to this great reservoir of music we've created in America - cakewalks, one-steps, boogie-woogie, country and western. I had a bit to do with one of those traditions.”

Source : "A Life in R&B / Johnny Otis looks back on his remarkable career, and at the end of an era" by Joel Selvin, www.sfgate.com. April 4, 2000.
“You go to school, you get a master's degree, you study Shakespeare and you wind up being famous for plastic glasses.”
“Real folk music long ago went to Nashville and left no known survivors.”
“If homes are going to survive, it will be because husbands and fathers again place their families at the highest level on their system of priorities.”

Source : James C. Dobson (2014). “Straight Talk to Men: Timeless Principles for Leading Your Family”, p.58, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
“I'm one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.”
“I had plastic surgery last week. I cut up my credit cards.”

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