Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Milton Babbitt

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Last updated on November 8, 2024.
Milton Babbitt

Milton Byron Babbitt was an American composer, music theorist, mathematician, and teacher. He is particularly noted for his serial and electronic music.

The new limitations are the human ones of perception. — © Milton Babbitt
The new limitations are the human ones of perception.
I dare suggest that the composer would do himself and his music an immediate and eventual service by total, resolute and voluntary withdrawal from this public world to one of private performance and electronic media.
I can't believe that people really prefer to go to the concert hall under intellectually trying, socially trying, physically trying conditions, unable to repeat something they have missed, when they can sit at home under the most comfortable and stimulating circumstances and hear it as they want to hear it. I can't imagine what would happen to literature today if one were obliged to congregate in an unpleasant hall and read novels projected on a screen.
Music is that great language where a lot can be said and little can be proven.
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