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#relevance

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When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance as a composition teacher would benefit from a certain cool distance to certain tendencies I had been observing for several years with increasing disquiet.


Brian Ferneyhough


#benefit #certain #composition #cool #did

Certainly being in California has encouraged a sustained commitment to rethinking the nature, purposes, and relevance of the contemporary arts, specifically music, for a society which by and large seems to manage quite well without them.


Brian Ferneyhough


#being #california #certainly #commitment #contemporary

It just seemed to me to be a great story, set back in its time but something that seemed to have relevance for our time. Now that the film is coming out, it looks like we're back in another time where repression of expression is all the rage.


Philip Kaufman


#another time #back #coming #expression #film

It is probably safe to say that all the changes of factual knowledge which have led to the relativity theory, resulting in a very great theoretical development, are completely trivial from any point of view except their relevance to the structure of a theoretical system.


Talcott Parsons


#changes #completely #development #except #factual

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.


Susan Sontag


#existence #flux #future #intensely #mobile

The concept that an artist would be revered by popular culture is an immediate dismissal of his relevance as an artist.


Thomas Kinkade


#concept #culture #his #immediate #popular

Voting, we might even say, is the next to last refuge of the politically impotent. The last refuge is, of course, giving your opinion to a pollster, who will get a version of it through a desiccated question, and then will submerge it in a Niagara of similar opinions, and convert them into--what else?--another piece of news. Thus we have here a great loop of impotence: The news elicits from you a variety of opinions about which you can do nothing except to offer them as more news, about which you can do nothing.


Neil Postman


#elections #irrelevance #media #nate-silver #news

Yeah. Floyd is his batman." His what?" Batman, like in the British army, each officer had a batman, a personal servant." You spend too much time reading, Spenser. You know more stuff that don't make you money than anybody I know.


Robert B. Parker


#britain #detectives #education #humor #irrelevance

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.


Edgar Allan Poe


#life #philosophy #relevance #truth #experience

A writer's age at the time of a work's composition is never irrelevant.


Margaret Atwood


#author #relevance #writer #age






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