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Mozart began his works in childhood and a childlike quality lurked in his compositions until it dawned on him that the requiem he was writing for s a stranger was his own.

-Ariel Durant

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Mozart Began His Works In Childhood And

Ariel Durant

Mozart began his works in childhood and a childlike quality lurked in his compositions until it dawned on him that the requiem he was writing for s a stranger was his own.

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Quality doesn't mean deep blacks and whatever tonal range. that's not quality, that's a kind of quality. the pictures of robert frank might strike someone as being sloppy-the tone range isn't right and things like that-but they're far superior to the pictures of ansel adams with regard to quality, because the quality of ansel adams, if i may say so, is essentially the quality of a postcard. but the quality of robert frank is a quality that has something to do with what he's doing, what his mind is. it's not balancing out the sky to the sand and so forth. it's got to do with intention.

When i look back on my childhood i wonder how i survived at all. it was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable irish catholic childhood.

Art has always been my salvation. and my gods are herman melville, emily dickinson, mozart. i believe in them with all my heart. and when mozart is playing in my room, i am in conjunction with something i can’t explain — i don’t need to. i know that if there’s a purpose for life, it was for me to hear mozart. or if i walk in the woods and i see an animal, the purpose of my life was to see that animal. i can recollect it, i can notice it. i’m here to take note of. and that is beyond my ego, beyond anything that belongs to me, an observer, an observer.

Or perhaps a widow found him and took him in: brought him an easy chair, changed his sweater every morning, shaved his face until the hair stopped growing, took him faithfully to bed with her every night, whispered sweet nothings into what was left of his ear, laughed with him over black coffee, cried with him over yellowing pictures, talked greenly about having kids of her own, began to miss him before she became sick, left him everything in her will, thought of only him as she died, always knew he was fiction but believed in him anyway.

Most people think that a widow is inhabiting some elegiac world of - it's like mozart's 'requiem mass.' you know, it's very beautiful and elevated thoughts and some measure of dignity. i didn't have that experience at all. i had one pratfall after another.

I definitely see the voice as an instrument: it makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything. vocals can be so many things, like, "hey, i'm michael jackson, and this is my iconic voice," or a choir of people sounding like mozart's requiem. mariah carey is my favorite singer because her voice sounds utterly groundless. it's not even a human voice; it almost sounds mechanical.

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