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Music Pedagogue Inspirational Quotes (1495)

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Evolution is the phenomenon of change and the challenge of the next time cycle will involve the creation of constructs that will provide the kind of dynamic knowledge base that can assist the challenges of tomorrow (involving both fundamental and extended information).
Anthony Braxton
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I'm a post-Abner Jay kind of guy mixed with Roger Corman and Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers.
Anthony Braxton
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So, yes, I am in the underground, but actually, it feels like home.
Anthony Braxton
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I'm seeking to have an art that is engaged as a way for saying, 'Hurray for unity.
Anthony Braxton
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I would find myself backing away from all of the 'isms,' all of the communities. I have always been able to be misused by every community But that is OK. I would rather be misused than neglected.
Anthony Braxton
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I thank the Creator of the universe to have discovered the discipline of music was the greatest gift that I could have been given, the possibility to be a student working in the world.
Anthony Braxton
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I had never thought that I would be involved in narrative structures. As a young guy, I was more interested in abstract modeling. But as I got older, I began to see that there was no reason to limit myself to any intellectual or conceptual postulate, when in fact I'm a professional student of music.
Anthony Braxton
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The word music is a convenient way to talk about what I'm interested in, but actually, in some ways, it's a limitation.
Anthony Braxton
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I am viewed as the Negro who has gone outside of the categories assigned to me.
Anthony Braxton
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I know I’m an African-American, and I know I play the saxophone, but I’m not a jazz musician. I’m not a classical musician, either. My music is like my life: It’s in between these areas.
Anthony Braxton
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...I have great hopes for the possibility of a dynamic universalism that respects all our people.
Anthony Braxton
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It is difficult to see the great dance effects as they happen, to see them accurately, catch them fast in memory. It is even more difficult to verbalize them for critical discussion. The particular essence of a performance, its human sweep of articulate rhythm in space and in time has no specific terminology to describe it by.
Martha Graham
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The music is the shining path over which the poet travels to bring his song to the world.
Lotte Lehmann
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But I fear, my lot being cast in Scotland, that beauty would not be content.
Anne Boyd
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Consider what a romantic expedition you are on take notes.
Anne Boyd
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Having nothing to do, I am correcting the Paris edition of Bach not only the engraver's mistakes, but also the mistakes hallowed by those who are supposed to understand Bach (I have no pretensions to understand better, but I do think that sometimes I can guess).
Frederic Chopin
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Think it a vile habit to alter works of good composers, to omit parts of them, or to insert new-fashioned ornaments. This is the greatest insult you can offer to Art.
Robert Schumann
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Growing up in the '50s and being in the '60s, in that revolutionary time space, I thought freedom was what I was looking for. Slowly but surely, it became clear that the last thing I was interested in was freedom. Because if you're going to be free, you have to be free from something.
Anthony Braxton
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I knew I could never match my father as a violinist, and there were already four generations of outstanding cellists in the family.
Leonard Slatkin
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Sometimes one is without the pleasure of playing. But when the silence of the audience is perfect, we recover that.
Andres Segovia
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It is impossible to feign mastery of an instrument, however skillful the impostor may be.
Andres Segovia
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Every guitarist has a special quality of sound. The best ones will use a good ear, much sensitivity and a thorough knowledge of music to prepare the nuances and colors of sound.
Andres Segovia
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The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth.
Andres Segovia
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Electric guitars are an abomination, whoever heard of an electric violin? An electric cello? Or for that matter an electric singer?
Andres Segovia
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