"I would not want you to suppose that my rejection of Allen Forte's theory of pitch-class sets implies a rejection of the notion that there can be such a thing as a pitch-class set. It is only when one defines everything in terms of pitch-class sets that the concept becomes meaningless."

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Source : George Perle (1990). “The Listening Composer”, p.67, Univ of California Press

George Perle

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“I don't write directly on to the computer because I don't think well facing forward with fingers on a keyboard. I think better looking down holding a pen. And the concentration quotient of pen and paper is higher than when I'm moving words around on screen.”
“Make your decisions promptly. It is better to act quickly even though your tactics are not the best.”
“I think most good music has got some kind of crossover-potential. It feels nice to know that there are more people than those into dance-music that are listening to what I've made.”

Source : Interview with Dominique Leone, pitchfork.com. September 29, 2008.
“I am afraid of a lot of things. A dog. I could be afraid of a dog that's upset, for example. And on the tennis courts, maybe on the outside I look fearless, but on the inside, I'm scared. There's not one player in the world who isn't nervous before matches. Especially important matches.”
“The woman who needs to be liberated most is the woman in every man, and the man who needs to be liberated most is the man in every woman”
“German civility, which often seems stiff to us, shows an attentive and touching respect for the person that I often prefer to our offhandedness.”
“Wisdom can be found and held onto...but wisdom can never be purchased. It is not for sale.”
“I am thinking of the onion again. . . . Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples.”

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