1,187 Quotes About Important

  • Author Karlheinz Stockhausen
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    In particular what is most important to me is the transformation of a sound by slowing it down, sometimes extremely, so that the inner of sound becomes a conceivable rhythm.

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  • Author Karlheinz Stockhausen
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    Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm.

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  • Author Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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    The history of imitation of the older literature, particularly abroad, has among other advantages this one, that the important concepts of unintentional parody and passive wit can be deduced from it most easily and comprehensively.

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  • Author Laurie Simmons
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    I'm very interested in stopping time. And starting time. There is that aspect of time that I'm playing with, that it's elusive and unnoticed yet really in the end the most important thing.

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  • Author Lawrence Summers
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    The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution as one of the most important developments in economic history.

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  • Author Leland Stanford
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    Legislation has been and is still directed towards the protection of wealth, rather than towards the far more important interests of labor on which everything of value to mankind depends.

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  • Author Leo Szilard
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    Three stages of truth for scientists: It's not true. If it is true, it's not very important. We knew it all along.

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