Wendy Carlos Quotes

• What is full of redundancy or formula is predictably boring. What is free of all structure or discipline is randomly boring. In between lies art.

  Wendy Carlos

  Art, Lying, Discipline

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• A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.

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  Art, Nice, Surprise

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• As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.

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  Wiser, Grows, Humans

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• It's best to incorporate a broadly eclectic point of view, and let whatever moves you be your inspiration.

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  Inspiration, Moving, Views

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• You repeat things because they're like your personal obsessions

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  Obsession, Like You, Repeats

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• I suppose I was affected by raw sounds and timbres more than a lot of other composers. Had I been involved with orchestral composing, I think the aspect that would have most endeared me to that field would have been the orchestration.

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  Thinking, Fields, Sound

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• Composition has almost always been solitary.

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  Solitary, Composition

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• I'm really a very weak musicologist. Wish it weren't so, but there's only so much you can dig deeply into in one lifetime, as if you hadn't noticed.

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  Wish, Lifetime, Weak

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