All Edgard Varese Quotes
I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music.
Edgard Varese
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Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor.
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Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.
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There is an idea, the basis of an internal structure, expanded and split into different shapes or groups of sound constantly changing in shape, direction, and speed, attracted and repulsed by various forces.
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I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena.
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I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm.
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An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.
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