Originality cannot be a goal. It is simply inevitable. The truly pathbreaking step can never be predicted, and certainly not by the person who makes …

- Harry Partch

The profession of music is lacking in horse sense, not only because the commonplace variety of horse is absent from its operations, but because parts…

- Harry Partch

Life is too precious to spend it with important people.

- Harry Partch

Life's too short to spend with important people.

- Harry Partch

Having decided to follow my own intuitive path I began to write music on the basis of harmonized spoken words, for new instruments and in new scales.

- Harry Partch