My God! What Has Sound Got To

There Can Be Nothing Exclusive About Substantial Art. It Comes Directly Out Of The Heart Of The Experience Of Life And Thinking About Life And Living Life.

In Some Century To Come, When The School Children Will Whistle Popular Tunes In Quarter-tones--when The Diatonic Scale Will Be As Obsolete As The Pentatonic Is Now--perhaps Then These Borderland Experiences May Be Both Easily Expressed And Readily Recognized. But Maybe Music Was Not Intended To Satisfy The Curious Definiteness Of Man. Maybe It Is Better To Hope That Music May Always Be Transcendental Language In The Most Extravagant Sense

Beauty In Music Is Too Often Confused With Something That Lets The Ears Lie Back In An Easy Chair. Many Sounds That We Are Used To Do Not Bother Us, And For That Reason We Are Inclined To Call Them Beautiful. Frequently, When A New Or Unfamiliar Work Is Accepted As Beautiful On Its First Hearing, Its Fundamental Quality Is One That Tends To Put The Mind To Sleep.

Vagueness Is At Times An Indication Of Nearness To A Perfect Truth.

Most Of The Forward Movements Of Life In General ... Have Been The Work Of Essentially Religiously-minded People.