#tempo

I completed the first three years of primary school in one year and was admitted to the local school the age of six directly into the fourth year, some two years younger than all my contemporaries. ↗

— Sydney Brenner

#age #completed #contemporaries #directly #first

My musical knowledge is so bad it's embarrassing. When composers discuss music with someone as primitive as myself, they have to talk about it in terms of senses and emotion, rather than keys and tempo. ↗

— Jane Campion

#bad #composers #discuss #embarrassing #emotion

I mean the public likes it more in Europe than they do here because the state supported organizations have felt that playing contemporary music was part of the education of the public. ↗

— Elliott Carter

#contemporary #contemporary music #education #europe #felt

Then, when the Depression came, all of this changed completely. Since that time, the entire public is of a very different sort and there was not so much support for contemporary music in a direct way. ↗

— Elliott Carter

#changed #completely #contemporary #contemporary music #depression

These wealthy people were very interested in contemporary music. They wanted to help diffuse it and get it to be known to other people. ↗

— Elliott Carter

#contemporary music #diffuse #get #help #interested

Certainly being in California has encouraged a sustained commitment to rethinking the nature, purposes, and relevance of the contemporary arts, specifically music, for a society which by and large seems to manage quite well without them. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#being #california #certainly #commitment #contemporary

Telephones are a virtual necessity - not a luxury - and the revenues collected by this tax flow into the general fund. But this once temporary tax remains and costs American taxpayers, our small businesses and families almost $6 billion dollars a year. ↗

— Mike Fitzpatrick

#american #american taxpayers #billion #businesses #collected

Good parties create a temporary youthfulness. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#create #good #parties #temporary #youthfulness

One very important aspect of our contemporary musical culture - some might say the supremely important aspect - is its extension in the historical and geographical senses to a degree unknown in the past. ↗

— George Crumb

#contemporary #culture #degree #extension #geographical

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#essential #give #liberty #little #neither