"I got myself into a lovely little shall we say controversy with AndrÃ© Breton, by pointing out that the discipline of spontaneity, which he was asking his surrealist neophytes to adopt, was new for language but something that composers had been practicing for centuries."

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Source : Virgil Thomson (1984). “A Virgil Thomson reader”, Plume

Virgil Thomson

#Discipline Quotes #Lovely Quotes #Asking Quotes

“The vertical and the horizontal are the extreme signs available to man for touching the beyond and his inwardness.”
“I am basically a religious man.”
“The definition of adulthood is that you want to sleep.”
“If girls are ever going to start to be in bands as the norm rather than as the exception. They need to see people up there that have just started playing. That's something that had gotten lost. I think that's why there are so many great girl punk rock bands now. It's like you have to make up your own rules because the old rules don't apply. You just have to start with what you have.”
“Then came the choreography... the impact of music and choreography tends to really emphasize an overall feeling of what you really want out of the program.”
“You might measure your approach to a horse the same way as your approach to people because there are going to be some horses, like some people, who might be inclined to tune you out.”
“There is a process of social and of political differentiation going on in the real working class all the time.”

Source : Ernest Mandel (1994). “Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays”, Humanities Press Intl
“You won't ever be totally gotten by any human. That's part of the fun.”

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