"Music is the art of sounds in the movement of time."

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Source : "The Essence of Music" by Ferruccio Busoni, 1923.

Ferruccio Busoni

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“Let us wage a moral and political war against war itself, so that we can cut military spending and use that money for human needs.”
“History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.”
“I think if we can accept Thor as a frog and a horse-faced alien, we should be able to accept a woman being able to pick up that hammer and wield it for a while.”
“When you grow suspicious of a person and begin a system of espionage upon him, your punishment will be that you will find your suspicions true.”
“Loving people the way Jesus did, means living a life of constant interruptions. Bring it.”
“I love it when people doubt me. It makes me work harder to prove them wrong.”

Source : "Competitive to a Fault". Interview with Anthony Verde, www.menshealth.com. March 12, 2008.
“It had nothing to do with gear or footwear or the backpacking fads or philosophies of any particular era or even with getting from point A to point B. It had to do with how it felt to be in the wild. With what it was like to walk for miles with no reason other than to witness the accumulation of trees and meadows, mountains and deserts, streams and rocks, rivers and grasses, sunrises and sunsets. The experience was powerful and fundamental. It seemed to me that it had always felt like this to be a human in the wild, and as long as the wild existed it would always feel this way.”
“The degeneration of the revolution in Russia does not pass from the revolution for communism to the revolution for a developed kind of capitalism, but to a pure capitalist revoÂlution. It runs in parallel with world-wide capitalist domination which, by successive steps, eliminates old feudal and Asiatic forms in various zones. While the historical situation in the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries caused the capitalist revolution to take liberal forms, in the twentieth century it must have totalitarian and bureaucratic ones.”

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