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Verified "I've got the rockin' pneumonia and I need a shot of rhythm and blues." Chuck Berry Roll Over Beethoven "Most people have music in the center of their lives. I believe my work sheds light on how music affects us and why it is so influential." Susan McClary from http://www.ucla.edu/spotlight/archive/html_2001_2002/fac0502_mcclalry.html "The composer makes plans, music laughs." Morton Feldman, in Give My Regards to Eighth Street: Collected Writings of Morton Feldman, ISBN 1878972316. "It appears to me that the subject of music, from Machaut to Boulez, has always been its construction. Melodies of 12-tone rows just don't happen. They must be constructed....To deomnstrate any formal idea in music, whether structure or stricture, is a matter of construction, in which the methodology is the controlling metaphor of the composition...Only by 'unfixing' the elements traditionally used to construct a piece of music could the sounds exist in themselves--not as symbols, or memories which were memories of other music to begin with." Morton Feldman, quoted in Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music, ISBN 0028645812 "Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical. Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor. Why, Italian Futurists, have you slavishly reproduced only what is commonplace and boring in the bustle of our daily lives. 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, quoted in Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music, ISBN 0028645812 "What is called music today is all too often only a disguise for the monologue of power. However, and this is the supreme irony of it all, never before have musicians tried so hard to communicate with their audience, and never before has that communication been so deceiving. Music now seems hardly more than a somewhat clumsy excuse for the self-glorification of musicians and the growth of a new industrial sector." Jacques Attali, quoted in Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music, ISBN 0028645812 "Any attempt to codify musical reality into a kind of imitation grammar (I refer mainly to the efforts associated with the Twelve-Tone System) is a brand of fetishism which shares with Fascism and racism the tendency to reduce live processes to immobile, labeled objects, the tendency to deal with formalities rather than substance. Claude Levi-Strauss describes (though to illustrate a different point) a captain at sea, his ship reduced to a frail raft without sails, who, by enforcing a meticulous protocol on his crew, is able to distract them from nostalgia for a safe harbor and from the desire for a destination." Luciano Berio, quoted in Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music, ISBN 0028645812 "One day I said to myself that it would be better to get rid of all that--melody, rhythm, harmony, etc. This was not a negative thought and did not mean that it was necessary to avoid them, but rather that, while doing something else, they would appear spontaneously. We had to liberate ourselves from the direct and peremptory consequence of intention and effect, because the intention would always be our own and would be circumscribed, when so many other forces are evidently in action in the final effect." Christian Wolff, quoted in Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music, ISBN 0028645812 "In order for music to free itself, it will have to pass over to the other side—there where territories tremble, where the structures collapse, where the ethoses get mixed up, where a powerful song of the earth is unleashed, the great ritornelles that transmutes all the airs it carries away and makes return." Gilles Deleuze, from his Essays Critical and Clinical, p. 104. List of musicians with articles See: List of people by occupation#Musicians. List of music related articles Concert Disco Electronic music Elevator music Form Jazz Performance Pop music Recording Rock music Twelve-tone technique See also: mass culture.
List of music related articles Concert Disco Electronic music Elevator music Form Jazz Performance Pop music Recording Rock music Twelve-tone technique See also: mass culture.