“[Serialism] is like a sailless ship, driven out to sea by its captain, who has grown tired of its being used only as a pontoon, and who is privately convinced that by subjecting life aboard to the rules of an elaborate protocol, he will prevent the crew from thinking nostalgically either of their home port or of their ultimate destination.…” ThinkingHomeUsedSeaUltimateTiredConvincedDrivenShipsDestinationCaptainsCrewPortProtocol Author:Claude Levi-Strauss
“I think that a society cannot live without a certain number of irrational beliefs. They are protected from criticism and analysis because they are irrational.” ThinkingCertainBeliefNumbersCriticismAnalysisProtectedIrrationalIrrational Beliefs Author:Claude Levi-Strauss
“The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. . . .” ThinkingMomentsFactsEmotionSpringBasesAddMusicalPatternsComposerListenersIncapableAnticipate Author:Claude Levi-Strauss
“I can't help thinking that science would be more appealing if it had no practical use.” IfsThinkingI CanHelpingUseWould BePracticals Author:Claude Levi-Strauss
“The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.” IfsThinkingFeelsHas BeensMomentsFactsFallForceEmotionMusicExerciseSpringOppositesBasesAddMusicalPatternsSensationsVoidComposerStableListenersIncapableTornDeliciousLaddersAnticipateThrustSkillful Author:Claude Levi-Strauss
