Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis Quotes & Sayings

Repetition draws us into music, and repetition draws music into us. — Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis

When we acknowledge how, just by living and listening, we have all acquired deep musical knowledge, we must also recognise that music is not the special purview of professionals. Rather, music professionals owe their existence to the fact that we, too, are musical. Without that profound shared understanding, music would have no power to move us ["The Music In You," Aeon, January 8, 2015]. — Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis

To this point, musical repetition has been viewed as a particular kind of object. But it can also be viewed as a particular kind of behavior. — Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis