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“A passion for music theory amounts to enjoying the struggle more than the results; we delight in the process of looking for answers, even though we know that no completely satisfactory answers will ever be found for any piece.”
Charles J. Smith, Music Theory Spectrum 8, 103-104
“Music analysts are concerned with making appropriate and interesting statement about pieces.”
Charles J. Smith, "Prolongations," 139
"a theory is like a musical instrument that one takes up to play a piece and allow it to sing,"
Marianne Kielian-Gilbert, Music Analysis 22/1-2, 56
“It doesn’t matter whether it’s good or bad – it was I who did it.”
Olivier Messiaen, Contributions to the Spiritual World of Olivier Messiaen, 35
“ . . . bird songs . . . are the most musical, the cloest to us and the easiest to reproduce.”
Olivier Messiaen, Olivier Messiaen Music and Color, 35
“ . . . it is necessary to think one thought and one thought only, and to think it through to the end.”
Harold Bloom, The Anxiety of Influence, xi
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