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Earle Brown
American
Composer
About the author
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,
American
Composer
#People
#Performance
#Lies
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 degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control.
Earle Brown,
American
Composer
#Control
#Music
#Beginning
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 limitation on the number of people involved in the creation.
Earle Brown,
American
Composer
#Time
#People
#Creation
#Reflection
#Generosity
#Optimism
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,
American
Composer
#Music
#Creation
#Motives