“ In serial music, the series itself is seldom audible… What I'm interested in is a compositional process and a sounding music that are one in the same thing. ”
- Steve Reich- Copy
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“ There is no acting in a serial. You simply race through the reels. ”
- Pearl White- Copy
- 1.2K
“ The serial number of a human specimen is the face, that accidental and unrepeatable combination of features. It reflects neither character nor soul, nor what we call the self. The face is only the serial number of a specimen. ”
- Milan Kundera- Copy
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“ The headline reads, "Docs say patients make them prescribe useless antibiotics." This puts a physician in roughly the same predicament as a serial killer. The latter says, "Stop me before I kill again, while the former says, "Stop me before I prescribe again… ”
- Nicolas Martin- Copy
- 2.2K
“ The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch. Love comes into it too, of course, but in Europe we tend to see marital love as an eternity which encompasses hate and also indifference: when we promise to love we really mean that we promise to honor a contract… ”
- Anthony Burgess- Copy
- 1.1K
“ The compassion is instigated by the situation, and Godwin, a bit ham-handedly, belabors the situation so that there can be no doubt in the reader's mind, makes Marilyn sweet, young, and innocent so that reader will want to save her - and then the realization of the cold equations will be more effective. ”
- James Gunn- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Cowell gave me an enormous amount of 'how to' knowledge, including how to write a serial piece before I went to Schoenberg. Also an immense stimulation about world music. He was an absolutely fascinating man, because of his knowledge not only of world music but also of how to do different things. ”
- Lou Harrison- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Contemporary serial music is like a sailless ship, driven out to sea by its captain, who is privately convinced that by subjecting life aboard to the rules of an elaborate protocol, he will prevent the crew from thinking nostalgically either of their home port or of their ultimate destination. ”
- Claude Levi Strauss- Copy
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