When we separate music from life we get art.
I discovered that those who seldom dwell on their emotions know better than anyone else just what an emotion is.
We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.
I went to a concert upstairs in Town Hall. The composer whose works were being performed had provided program notes. One of these notes was to the effect that there is too much pain in the world. Afte...
We are involved in a life that passes understanding: our highest business is our daily life.
Ideas are one thing and what happens is another.
An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.
Theatre takes place all the time wherever one is and art simply facilitates persuading one this is the case.
Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.
All great art is a form of complaint
I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry.
To accept whatever comes regardless of the consequences is to be unafraid.
There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.
After I had been studying with him for two years, Schoenberg said, "In order to write music, you must have a feeling for harmony." I explained to him that I had no feeling for harmony. He then said th...
It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.
Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living
Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear which remains unsatisfied and even uneasy until it hears something better. I am convinced...that provided the ear be at length made amends there a...
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.