Top 33 Varese Quotes
#1. Varese, Apollinaire, Ezra Pound, Leger, Gleizes, Severini, Villon, Duchamp, Duchamp-Villon, Marie Laurencin, Cocteau and many others were to me household names in the literal sense - names of familiar figures around the house.
Jacques Barzun
#2. Robert Townson at Varese is a huge fan of film music and has really done a lot to educate audiences about film music and scores.
Marco Beltrami
#3. The first time I came to New York in 1952, I was busy with music. I made the acquaintance at this period with John Cage, and also the acquaintance of Varese for the first time. We were very good friends. He gave me some scores, and we recorded them a little later.
Pierre Boulez
#4. As a little boy of 3 or 4, I became lame. Something was wrong with my right leg. There are pictures of me being pulled around in a little wagon. The doctors didn't know what to do. So my nanny took me to the miraculous Madonna at Sacro Monte in Varese, the priest blessed me, and I walked.
Gian Carlo Menotti
#5. The magnet's name the observing Grecians drew. From the magnetic region where it grew.
William Gilbert
#6. A man is culpable in the eyes of society when he escapes from the jurisdiction of its mediocrity.
Edgard Varese
#7. The beginning of art is not reason. It is the buried treasure of the unconscious ... that unconscious which has more understanding than our lucidity.
Edgard Varese
#8. 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.
Edgard Varese
#9. Men set themselves a goal, and having attained it, are satisfied and grow paunches. In their complacency they forget that their only future is now death.
Edgard Varese
#10. I'm going to speak to professor Madoc about this."
"OK," said Patrick. Mick seemed disappointed that he wasn't more worried by the prospect.
"All right, you can get out now."
"OK," said Patrick and didn't go.
Belinda Bauer
#11. No matter how consummate a work of art may seem, it is only an approximation of the original conception. It is the artist's consciousness of this discrepancy between his conception and the realization that assures his progress.
Edgard Varese
#12. 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
#13. Solitude and loneliness are two separate things. One you choose out of wisdom, the other out of necessity.
-Mark Miller
Mark Miller
#15. Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.
Edgard Varese
#18. Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor.
Edgard Varese
#19. A work of art must make the rules: rules do not make a work of art ... I tell people I am not a musician; I work with rhythms, frequencies and intensities ... tunes are merely the gossips of music ...
Edgard Varese
#20. I do not write experimental music. My experimenting is done before I make the music. Afterwards it is the listener who must experiment.
Edgard Varese
#21. Hoosiers don't believe in discrimination.
Mike Pence
#22. Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.
Edgard Varese
#24. I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena.
Edgard Varese
#25. I believe the most degrading thing in the world is to be treated worse than a starving dog by five growling, muscle-bound thugs, better known as screws!
Stephen Richards
#26. You are the weirdest girl ever." "Please. You live with Eve.
Rachel Caine
#27. In every domain of art, a work that corresponds to the need of its day carries a message of social and cultural value. It is the artist who crystallizes his age ... who fixes his time in history.
Edgard Varese
#29. I rather like a certain clumsiness in a work of art.
Edgard Varese
#31. I have just begun a work in which an important part is given to a large chorus and with it I want to use several of your instruments - augmenting their range as in those I used for my Equatorial - especially in the high range.
Edgard Varese
#32. 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.
Edgard Varese
#33. I basically made it my mission to prove that ethical fashion isn't frumpy and bland.
Amanda Hearst
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