“For language to be generative, children must not be learning by rote. Music is also generative. For every musical phrase I hear, I can always add a note… to generate a new musical phrase.”
This is Your Brain on Music (2006)
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“According to the generation is the music thereof.”
A Gilgul fun a Nign, 1901. Alle Verk, vi. 73.
On how he creates memorable music
Ebony interview (2007)
“Music enters the soul when the sound generates emotion.”
Original: (it) La musica entra nell'anima nel momento in cui il suono genera emozione.
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Lin Carter, Dragons, Elves, and Heroes (New York: Ballantine, 1971) p. 76.
Criticism
Igor Stravinsky. "Subject: Music", New York Times Magazine, 9/27/64.
1960s
Source: Interview at Recanto das Letras http://recantodasletras.com.br/entrevistas/625556, 2007.
“Let my children have music! Let them hear live music. Not noise.”
What Is A Jazz Composer? (1971)
Context: Let my children have music! Let them hear live music. Not noise. My children! You do what you want with your own!
Eduard Hanslick, quoted by Wolfgang Sandberger (1996) in the liner notes to the Juilliard String Quartet's Intimate Letters. Sony Classical SK 66840.