Dodecaphonic Music Quotes & Sayings

When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnipotent, sacrifice himself? — W. Somerset Maugham

A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is. — Gertrude Stein

For a man's counsel cannot have equal weight or worth, when he alone has no children to risk in the general danger. — Pericles

Talking high philosophy often confuses people, but a look from an egoless person can lift the clouds of pain and despair. — Mata Amritanandamayi

[A]ny musician who has not experienced - I do not say understood, but truly experienced - the necessity of dodecaphonic music is USELESS. For his whole work is irrelevant to the needs of his epoch. — Pierre Boulez

I trained in the theatre and I love the theatre. I get such a thrill seeing anything in the theatre. — Ewan McGregor

To live and breathe with an exclusive focus on one's small self, disconnected from the whole, is the definition of egotism. — Sharon Gannon

Harlow, do you realize that you're breathtaking? Just looking at you can become addictive. — Abbi Glines

There would have been no Beats deal without the Samsung deal. It showed the number one company the importance of connecting with culture, — Kanye West

It was disconcerting when she asked questions that no one answered. That way lay madness. — K.F. Breene

Consistently, [Yves] Congar emphasized the distinction between Tradition and traditionalism. The latter was an unyielding commitment to the past. The former was a living principle of commitment to the Beginning, a process that required creativity, inspiration, and a spirit of openness to the present as well as respect for the past.
Two of Congar's works, on reform in the church and on the theology of the laity, proved especially controversial ... Congar believed that reform was a vital and necessary dimension of the church. This was rooted in the distinction between the church and the kingdom of God and in the intermingling in the church of both divine and human elements. In light of the church's constant temptation to revert to institutionalism, it was always necessary to allow room for the prophetic voice, issuing from the margins, even though this might mean attending to uncomfortable truths. — Robert Ellsberg

If anything, we older people yearn for a peaceful world even more than young people do. We are the ones who lost friends or relatives in some war. We are the ones who have lived a lifetime of seeing and reading about human suffering. — Dennis Prager