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“What I like about music is its ability to be convincing, to carry an argument through successfully to the finish, though the terms of the argument remain unknown quantities.”

Term Ability Music Music Is Argument Quantity Convincing

Author:John Ashbery

“Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.”

People Black Term White Music Music Is Racism Jazz Black People Classical Music Jazz Music Classic Music

Author:Nina Simone

“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.”

Source: Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century

“I see my life in terms of music.”

Inspirational Spiritual Term Music

Book:Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century

Source: Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century

“If we compel the composer to write in terms of what the listener is able to hear, we flirt with the danger of freezing the evolution of musical language, whose progressive development comes about through transgressions of a given era's perceptual habits."”

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Book:Music and Discourse: Toward a Semiology of Music

Source: Music and Discourse: Toward a Semiology of Music

“Music is the purest form of art... therefore true poets...seek to express the universe in terms of music. The singer has everything within him. The notes come out from his very life. They are not materials gathered from outside.”

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Author:Rabindranath Tagore

“I usually think in terms of music”

Thinking Term Music

Author:Shane West