Edgard Varèse quotes
Edgard Varèse was a French-born composer, celebrated for his pioneering work in electronic and experimental music. His innovative approach emphasized the use of new technologies and unconventional sounds. He inspired generations of musicians and is often called the "father of electronic music." Here are 14 of his quotes:
Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical. Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor.
Why, Italian Futurists, have you slavishly reproduced only what is commonplace and boring in the bustle of our daily lives.
I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm.
Edgard Varèse
I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena. As a child, I was tremendously impressed by the qualities and character of the granite I found in Burgundy, where I often visited my grandfather...So I was always in touch with things of stone and with this kind of pure structural architecture - without frills or unnecessary decoration. All of this became an integral part of my thinking at a very early stage.
Edgard Varèse
Edgard Varèse
Occupation: American Composer
Born: December 22, 1883
Died: November 6, 1965
Quotes count: 14
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