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quotes[0] = 'Someone has said that if we do not understand the past, we are doomed to suffer its mistakes all over again. This applies to history and politics, not to art, where we have no mistakes, only successive manifestations of the human spirit. With art, if we do not understand the past, we are doomed only to living in the present. (Kerman)';
quotes[1] = 'Is it that great music of the past is somehow both of its time and above it, aloof from it? And that popular music reflects its time with such immediacy and intensity that it burns itself out? (Kerman)';
quotes[2] = 'There is music of the past, which seems to retain its vitality for years, even centuries, as each new generation comes to it. It is interesting to speculate on the reasons for this really rather amazing continuity of response to art , music, and literature of previous ages. (Kerman)';
quotes[3] = 'Music is the poetry of human expression through sound in time.';
quotes[4] = 'The ancient unity is the common expression of human poetic utterance in poetry, music, drama, and dance.';
quotes[5] = 'If it could be told in words, then why would Chopin have found it necessary to tell it through notes in the first place? (Bernstein, Joy Of Music)';
quotes[6] = '...the relevant fact is that words have their original function in representation, and are transparent; and notes have their original function in abstraction and are opaque. And that, further, just as words can move in from that original function toward a middle ground of quasi-abstraction, so musical notes can move in from their native habitat to the middle ground of conceptual meaning, as in program music, musical drama, background music... (Bernstein, JOY OF MUSIC)';
quotes[7] = 'Your sense of meaning in a piece will evolve during repeated listenings';
quotes[8] = 'Art is a search for meaning and understanding through expanded and elevated human experience. (Thomas)';
quotes[9] = 'While popular art must be self-sustaining economically, it tends not to be self-sustaining artistically, but rather to imitate either folk art or fine art. (Kingman)';
quotes[10] = '... the difference between straight music \- pop balladry, dance, blues, or worship \- and art music is the difference between simple meanings and multiple ones. (Virgil Thomson)';
quotes[11] = 'Music is, finally, an inner experience, a happening that occurs within ourselves. (Menuhin)';
quotes[12] = 'Classical music is like French cuisine \- it is high quality, it cost more, and to the uninitiated it may not be palatable at first. But since it is quality, in the long run it is definitely better for you than the musical \"fast food\" that is being pushed at you for commercial reasons. (Taavo Virkhaus)';
quotes[13] = 'Music creates an awareness of experience, music is chosen and arranged to create a specific emotional response and music is expressed through meaning, sound and rhythm. (Joe Stefani)';
quotes[14] = 'Beauty in music is too often confused with something that lets the ears lie back in an easy chair. (Charles Ives)';
quotes[15] = 'THE FORCE OF POETRY CANNOT BE EXPRESSED IN WORDS. The profundity of Shakespeare\'s poetry cannot be explained by words beyond a general level. The impact of the poetry and the meaning it communicates is undeniable real. The fact that we cannot express it in so many words does not deny its existence, but merely demonstrates the occasional poverty of words. (Burnside)';
quotes[16] = 'THE MEANING OF MUSIC VARIES WITH EACH LISTENER. It is possible to speak of meaning in generalities. For example a particular piece of music might evoke tears in most listeners. Obviously sadness is embedded in the meaning of the piece. But certainly the specific meaning, the reason for the sadness, will vary from listener to listener. Each listener brings a unique set of experiences, memories, associations, and expectations to the piece. The listeners are alike enough to recognize the general quality of sadness, but sufficiently individual to have personal, particular interpretations of it. (Burnside)';
quotes[17] = 'The exercise of any of his faculties gives pleasure to the healthy being \- otherwise he would never attempt crossword puzzles or mountain ascents \- and the greater the use made of the faculty, the greater the pleasure, at any rate, within limits. (Jeans)';
quotes[18] = 'Music has a capacity to produce believable descriptions or imitations of things beyond itself (brooks, bird calls, thunder, breezes, lightening, etc.). The attempt to describe or imitate these thing in music has intrigued composers for a long time ... but music made exclusively of these descriptions or imitations is very limited, and tedium develops quickly. The music is impoverished and robbed of its more profound functions. The meaning of the music is evident, but it quickly induces boredom.';
quotes[19] = 'What people don\'t seem to understand is that in our business the main thing is making music; raising money is just the means to the goal. In all other businesses it is just the opposite. So if we count the number of gold records, tickets sold, and money made on our concerts, we are dealing in the business of selling, not arts. In arts we should strive for quality. (Taavo Virkhaus)';
quotes[20] = 'Science deals with the observable, the definable, the quantifiable; Art, with the intuitive, the subconscious, the emotional. (MEJ)';


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