Quotes by Levi-Strauss, Claude

Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in socie >>

The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each momen >>

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one w >>

Quotations about Music

Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child >>

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses betwee >>

Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear. >>

Since music is a language with some meaning at least for the immense majority of mankind, although only a tiny minority of people are capable of formulating a meaning in it, and since it is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being at once intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods, and music itself the supreme mystery of the science of man, a mystery that all the various disciplines come up against and which holds the key to their progress.

Levi-Strauss, Claude