“His partitioning of the octave in the first ten bars places Varese with Scriabin and the Schoenberg circle among the revolutionary composers whose work initiates the beginning of a new mainstream tradition in the music of our century.”
George Perle
“I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust”
Igor Stravinsky
“Playing octaves was just a coincidence. And it's still such a challenge, like chord versions, block chords like cats play on piano. There are a lot of things that can be done with it, but each is a field of its own. I used to have headaches every time I played octaves, because it was extra strain, but the minute I'd quit I'd be all right. But now I don't have headaches when I play octaves.”
Wes Montgomery
“They were putting all the emphasis on her 4½-octave range, and that's not what separates Jessica from all the rest,”
Joe Simpson
“We had been circling another story line for the first two or three weeks we got together, and it didn't really excite us. Then somebody said, 'What if the president is shot?' It really was one of those epiphanies that suddenly crystallized.”
Howard Gordon
“Could it be that my circle is largely black and that it is why I am influential in black circles but not in white circles?”
Louis Farrakhan
“It's the next natural step ... to get a first-hand account and bring the story full circle. They are not on their own now. There are people all over the world ... trying to make a difference to end this.”
Adrian Bradbury
