"The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish."

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Source : Quoted in Machlis Introduction to Contemporary Music (1963).

Virgil Thomson

#Writing Quotes #Simple Quotes #Wish Quotes

“There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.”
“Once you step inside, history has to be rewritten to include you. A fiction develops a story that weaves you into the social fabric, giving you roots and a local identity. You are assimilated, and in erasing your differences and making you one of their own, the community can maintain belief in its wholeness and purity. After two or three generations, nobody remembers the story is fiction. It has become fact. And this is how history is made.”

Source : Camilla Gibb (2007). “Sweetness in the Belly”, p.84, Penguin
“I was never worried that synthesizers would replace musicians. First of all, you have to be a musician in order to make music with a synthesizer.”
“Neither Goyl nor men lived long enough to understand that yesterday was born of tomorrow, just as tomorrow was born of yesterday.”
“... it struck me as so hard to believe I was really getting what I wanted; it was always easier to feel the lack of something than the thing itself.”
“Research now seems to indicate that one hour of inner action is worth seven hours of out-in-the-worl d action. Think about that. You're working too hard.”
“In a town church the right place for the admission of light.”
“If your clients aren't actively telling their friends about you, maybe your work isn't as great as you think it is.”

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