Edgard Varese Quotes

• There is no avant-garde: only some people a bit behind.

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• I have just begun a work in which an important part is given to a large chorus and with it I want to use several of your instruments – augmenting their range as in those I used for my Equatorial – especially in the high range.

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  Topics in Work

  Tags in Self, Important

• 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.

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  Tags in Self, Music, Rhythm

• I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena.

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  Tags in Physical, Phenomena

• Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.

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  Topics in Genius

  Tags in People

• I don’t want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Music, Instruments

• Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor.

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Music

• Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical.

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  Tags in Musical, Alphabet

• Music is organized sound.

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  Tags in Music

• There is an idea, the basis of an internal structure, expanded and split into different shapes or groups of sound constantly changing in shape, direction, and speed, attracted and repulsed by various forces.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Building, Structure

• An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.

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  Topics in Art

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Edgard Varese (11)

Birth:	22nd December, 1883
Death:	6th November, 1965
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Composer

About

Edgard Victor Achille Charles Varèse was born in Paris, France. He was a French-born American composer. He is known for his sonic experimentation and immense passion for electronic instruments. Because of his talent for music and keen interest in research and experiments with taped music, Varese is regarded as the most innovative composer of his time. His passion for using new instruments and creating electronic music earned him the title of the “Father of Electronic Music”.

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