Quote #5

'My music is best understood by children and animals.'

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  2. 'The over-publicized bit about expression (or non-expression) was simply a way of saying that music is supra-personal and super-real and as…
  3. 'One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.'
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  5. Music's exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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