"I can't believe that people really prefer to go to the concert hall under intellectually trying, socially trying, physically trying conditions, unable to repeat something they have missed, when they can sit at home under the most comfortable and stimulating circumstances and hear it as they want to hear it. I can't imagine what would happen to literature today if one were obliged to congregate in an unpleasant hall and read novels projected on a screen."

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Source : "Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music". Book by Richard Kostelanetz, 1996.

Milton Babbitt

#Believe Quotes #Home Quotes #People Quotes

“If something isn't working out in one aspect of my career, it's not any big neurotic, crazy phase for me, it's just something that I accept, and that's okay. I'm not going to keep banging my head against the wall.”
“They [Republicans] say, 'You're too conservative.' Was Thomas Jefferson too conservative? I'm tired of some people calling me wacky.”

Source : "GOP Senate hopeful Sharron Angle is counting on conservative credentials" by Laura Myers, www.reviewjournal.com. March 20, 2010.
“And Twin Peaks, the Film is the craziest film in the history of cinema. I have no idea what happened, I have no idea what I saw, all I know is that I left the theater floating six feet above the ground.”
“The Tao cannot be divided, it cannot be shared”
“Tomorrow is the mysterious, unknown guest.”
“People love what they're used to, I guess." "No." You shook your head. "People should love what needs loving. That way they can save it.”

Source : Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.186, Scholastic Inc.
“... all of the great sounds that James Burton and Jimmy Bryant were getting, came out of Telecasters”
“Breastroke is an athletic event, butterfly is a political statement.”

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