Literature Quotes

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"Literature connects us across time to those who came before and after."
George Eastman
"Literature and music speak the same language."
Pierre Boulez
"Literature captures what music expresses."
Pierre Boulez
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"Literature preserves the human voice across time."
Pierre Schaeffer
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"Literature immortalizes the human experience."
Pierre Schaeffer
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"Literature and music speak the same eternal language."
Karlheinz Stockhausen
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"Literature and music are siblings in truth-telling."
Karlheinz Stockhausen
"Literature and music are sisters exploring different aspects of human experience."
Pierre Boulez
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"There is the biggest gulf fixed between those who read and those who do not read."
Andrew Carnegie
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"Literature and music are two languages for the same truth."
Karlheinz Stockhausen
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"Literature preserves the collective human experience."
Pauline Oliveros
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"Literature and music are siblings separated at birth."
Pierre Schaeffer
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"And what is the purpose of writers? To say what happens."
John Cage
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"Literature and music are languages of the soul speaking truth"
Karlheinz Stockhausen
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"Literature and music both attempt to capture the ineffable qualities of human experience."
Pauline Oliveros
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"I believe in the power of storytelling."
Laurie Anderson
"Language is a virus that programs our perception."
Ryoji Ikeda
"Literature preserves what algorithms cannot calculate."
Ryoji Ikeda
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"Literature connects us across time and space."
Jon Hopkins
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"Literature shows us we're not alone in our struggles."
Jon Hopkins
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"I have nothing to say and I am saying it and that is poetry."
John Cage
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"Literature comes alive when read aloud with intention and presence."
Pauline Oliveros
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"Literature allows us to live a thousand lives."
Yoko Ono
"Numbers describe the world; poetry interprets it."
Ryoji Ikeda
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"Literature captures what music leaves unsaid."
Jon Hopkins
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"Literature teaches us to see through the eyes of others."
John Cage
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"Literature, like music, creates meaning through the arrangement of symbols and sounds."
Pauline Oliveros
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"Stories are the way we make sense of our lives."
Laurie Anderson
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"The world needs more poets and fewer algorithms."
Laurie Anderson
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"Literature teaches us what music can only suggest"
Jon Hopkins