What is a good performance? It lies in the hands and head of a performer... the shortest way between two people is not a straight line.

- Earle Brown

I'm convinced that in a healthy society, artistic norms should be constantly under question which is not of course, to deny the need for continuity.

- Earle Brown

It is not possible, given any degree of optimism and generosity in regard to people in general, to set a time limit on creative reflection or a limit…

- Earle Brown

Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the given material and, to varying …

- Earle Brown

There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political.

- Earle Brown