Milton Babbitt Professions : Composer Born : May 10, 1916 Died : January 29, 2011 Browse All Authors Top 4 quotes by Milton Babbitt Music is that great language where a lot can be said and little can be proven. Milton Babbitt language said littles I can't believe that people really prefer to go to the concert hall under intellectually trying, socially trying, physically trying conditions, unable to repeat something they have missed, when they can sit at home under the most comfortable and stimulating circumstances and hear it as they want to hear it. I can't imagine what would happen to literature today if one were obliged to congregate in an unpleasant hall and read novels projected on a screen. Milton Babbitt home believe people The new limitations are the human ones of perception. Milton Babbitt doors-of-perception perception humans I dare suggest that the composer would do himself and his music an immediate and eventual service by total, resolute and voluntary withdrawal from this public world to one of private performance and electronic media. Milton Babbitt withdrawal media world Similar Authors Igor Stravinsky composer Irving Berlin composer Brian Ferneyhough composer Bryce Dessner composer Bradley Joseph composer Boudleaux Bryant composer All Authors