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19 Cards in this Set

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"Don’t pay too much attention to the sounds—for if you do, you may miss the music.”
George Ives
“My God, What has sound got to do with music?”
Charles Ives
"Chicago had had the biggest conflagration “in the world.” It was the biggest grain and lumber market “in the world.” It was the greatest railroad center, the greatest this, and the greatest that."
Louis Sullivan
“Any band can play the arrangements as printed but we shall play them differently.”
John Philip Sousa
“True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is today.”
George Gershwin
“The continuation of this annual [opera] festival, with magnificent music, at prices within the reach of all, would have a tendency to diminish crime and Socialism in our city by educating the masses to higher things
Ferdinand Peck
“Every great inspiration is but an experiment”
Charles Ives
“Inspiration may be a form of super consciousness, or perhaps of sub consciousness—I wouldn’t know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness."
Aaron Copland
“We all rise together, or not at all.”
William Grant Still
“The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.”
John Cage
Music is "purposeless play", but "this play is an affirmation of life—not an attempt to bring order out of chaos, nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply to wake up to the very life we are living, which is so excellent once one gets one’s mind and desires out the way and lets it act of its own accord.
John Cage
“I'm trying to interpret the film through the director's head, but it all comes out through me. So, a [film] composer is kind of like a psychic medium.”
Danny Elfman
“Everything has a beginning somewhere and one thing leads to another, though they may not seem connected: from Bach to Baroque to Appalachian folk fiddling . Actually, those have some common elements.”
Yo Yo Ma
"I liked the rhythms…I liked the melodies, time tested by generations of singers. Above all, I liked the words.”
Pete Seeger
"In 1935 I was sixteen years old, playing tenor banjo in the school jazz band. I was uninterested in the classical music which my parents taught at Juilliard. That summer I visited a square dance festival in Asheville, North Carolina, and fell in love with the old-fashioned five-string banjo, rippling out a rhythm to one fascinating song after another."
Pete Seeger
“I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher...America can well expect to develop a goodly amount of composers for she has a goodly number of people.”
John Philip Sousa
“Rock’n’Roll is the most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear”
Frank Sinatra
“The essence of music as a cultural system is both that it is not a phenomenon of the natural world and also that it is experienced as though it were.”
Bruno Nettl
“I feel completely left out of the realm of everything that is so important to me. And I know that this is partly because punk rock is for and by boys.”
Kathleen Hanna