Cardew's Quotes

#1. Experimental music scores are enigmatic, opaque, demanding, irritating, humorous, childlike; the best, like Cardew's Treatise, are also inspiring, giving rise, on occasion, to a music of vitality, intelligence and elegance.

John Tilbury

#2. Even beauty diminishes with study. It is better to glance than gawk.

Josiah Bancroft

#3. Everyone believed that to be caught out in a shameful moment when neck muscles relax and the head snaps forward might damage career prospects. But believing was not quite enough. Heavy eyelids in the late afternoon had their own logic, their own peculiar weight.

Ian McEwan

#4. I suppose if a man lived through the ugliest side of love, he might never want to experience it again.

Colleen Hoover

#5. The score must govern the music. It must have authority, and not merely be an arbitrary jumping-off point for improvisation.

Cornelius Cardew

#6. The ecological crisis is doing what no other crisis in history has ever done - challenging us to a realization of a new humanity.

Jean Houston

#7. It was just a different kind of battle, one he'd have to learn to win

Cinda Williams Chima

#8. I studied at a university in Florence and finished my degree. My mother was very strict about this recipe: You need to get your degree.

Donatella Versace

#9. At one point [Cardew] taught himself to play guitar simply in order to take part in the performance in a composition by Boulez, which is a little like saying he learned Danish to read Kiekegaard.

Morton Feldman

#10. You have filled my tea with lumps of sugar, and though I asked most distinctly for bread and butter, you have given me cake. I am known for the gentleness of my disposition, and the extraordinary sweetness of my nature, but I warn you, Miss Cardew, you may go too far.

Oscar Wilde

#11. Bear in mind that parts of the score may be devoid of direct musical relevance.

Cornelius Cardew

#12. But once I saw Fulvia Cardew crumple up a sheet of paper with just a couple of words written on it and you would've thought she'd murdered someone from the looks she got.

Suzanne Collins

#13. I love Nashville. It's such a great town, and I'm a huge country music fan. That's what I listen to on the radio in the car.

Joanna Garcia

#14. A Composer who hears sounds will try to find a notation for sounds. One who has ideas will find one that expresses his ideas, leaving their interpretation free, in confidence that his ideas have been accurately and concisely notated.

Cornelius Cardew

#15. I used to be a photographer - and now I'm some kind of digital photographic artist.

Chris Jordan

#16. The audience includes subscribers, so you have to be careful.

Michael Ritchie

#17. The most useless are those who never change through the years.

James M. Barrie

#18. Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

Mahatma Gandhi

#19. I was beginning to agree with the thesis that some truths were better off dead.
And buried.

Simona Panova

#20. The notation is more important than the sound. Not the exactitude and success with which a notation notates a sound; but the musicalness of the notation in its notating.

Cornelius Cardew

#21. I never see the dawn that I don't say to myself perhaps.

John Dos Passos

#22. If you don't work very hard, it is extremely unlikely that you will be a good trader.

Bruce Kovner