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 only by the miracle of a kind of internal logic, an innate sense of proportion.
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…
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 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.
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.
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…
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.
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