I dream of a collaboration that will become so complete that, often, the poet will think as musician and the musician as poet, so that the work resulting from this union will not be the random conclusion of a series of approximations and concessions, but the harmonious synthesis of two aspects of the same thought.
I dream of a collaboration that will become so complete that, often, the poet will think as musician and the musician as poet, so that the work resul… - Arthur Honegger
I dream of a collaboration that will become so complete that, often, the poet will think as musician and the musician as poet, so that the work resul…
- Arthur Honegger
To write music is to raise a ladder without a wall to lean it against. There is no scaffolding: the building under construction is held in balance on… - Arthur Honegger
To write music is to raise a ladder without a wall to lean it against. There is no scaffolding: the building under construction is held in balance on…
The first requirement for a composer is to be dead. - Arthur Honegger
The first requirement for a composer is to be dead.
I have always loved locomotives passionately. For me they are living creatures and I love them as others love women or horses. - Arthur Honegger
I have always loved locomotives passionately. For me they are living creatures and I love them as others love women or horses.
Composing is not a profession. It is a maniaa harmless madness. - Arthur Honegger
Composing is not a profession. It is a maniaa harmless madness.
Music is geometry in time. - Arthur Honegger
Music is geometry in time.
The modern composer is a madman who persists in manufacturing an article which nobody wants. - Arthur Honegger
The modern composer is a madman who persists in manufacturing an article which nobody wants.
The public doesn't want new music; the main thing it demands of a composer is that he be dead. - Arthur Honegger
The public doesn't want new music; the main thing it demands of a composer is that he be dead.
To tell the truth, in Pacific 231 I was on the trail of a very abstract and quite ideal concept, by giving the impression of a mathematical accelerat… - Arthur Honegger
To tell the truth, in Pacific 231 I was on the trail of a very abstract and quite ideal concept, by giving the impression of a mathematical accelerat…
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