Earle Brown quotes

Earle Brown was a pioneering American composer known for his avant-garde and experimental music. Born in 1926, Brown studied at the renowned Juilliard School before embarking on a successful career in music. He was a key figure in the development of graphic notation and indeterminate music, which allowed for a high degree of improvisation and interpretation by the performers. Brown's innovative approach to composition has had a lasting impact on contemporary music. Learn more about Earle Brown and his contributions to the world of music.

Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the "given" material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control.

- Earle Brown

There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political.

- Earle Brown

What is a good performance? It lies in the hands and head of a performer... the shortest way between two people is not a straight line.

- Earle Brown