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" I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. "
Ideas
Why
Understand
" Ideas are one thing and what happens is another. "
One Thing
Another
Ideas
" If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all. "
Four
Boring
Sixteen
" I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry. "
Saying
Say
Am
" It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of 'culture.' "
Better
Than
Music
" It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep. "
Cannot
Who
Useless
" The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason. "
Myself
Reason
You
" The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation. "
Operation
Nature
Her
" There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot. "
Try
Time
Space
" There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing. "
Possess
Poetry
Nothing
" We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life. "
Life
Our
Business
" We carry our homes within us which enables us to fly. "
Us
Our
Carry
" We need not destroy the past. It is gone. "
Destroy
Past
Need
" When we separate music from life we get art. "
Music
Art
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