John Luther Adams Quotes

• As a composer, I believe that music has the power to inspire a renewal of human consciousness, culture, and politics. And yet I refuse to make political art. More often than not political art fails as politics, and all too often it fails as art. To reach its fullest power, to be most moving and most fully useful to us, art must be itself.

  John Luther Adams

  Art, Moving, Believe

  "Making Music in the Anthropocene". www.slate.com. February 24, 2015.

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• My hope is that the music creates a strange, beautiful, overwhelming - sometimes even frightening - landscape, and invites you to get lost in it.

  John Luther Adams

  Beautiful, Landscape, Strange

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• Life on this earth first emerged from the sea. As the polar ice melts and sea level rises, we humans find ourselves facing the prospect that once again we may quite literally become ocean.

  John Luther Adams

  Ocean, Ice, Sea

  "Letter from the Archive: John Luther Adams" by Joshua Rothman, www.newyorker.com. April 18, 2014.

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• Where the eye divides, the ear connects.

  John Luther Adams

  Eye, Ears, Divides

  John Luther Adams (2004). “Winter Music: Composing the North”, p.164, Wesleyan University Press

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• I’ve come to believe that, fundamentally, art matters more than politics.

  John Luther Adams

  Art, Believe, Matter

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