…particle when constrained by certain instruments. And those statements do not contradict each other at all. To take another example, Beethoven is better than Mozart. I've heard lots of arguments about that. The Mozart people are absolutely fanatical. I mean,…

…a couple of years ago. Reformulated in E prime, these statements become, in my present state of musical knowledge and ignorance, Beethoven seems better than Mozart to me. Or, to take a more extreme example, in my present state of mixed knowledge and…

…better than Mozart to me. Or, to take a more extreme example, in my present state of mixed knowledge and ignorance of music, Beethoven seems better than punk rock to me. Martin Gardner has written a long essay proving that to think like this will destroy…

…which you can't predict, and Claude used a great mathematical equation for it. But if you think of the information in a Beethoven Symphony as compared with baroque chamber music or the information in the first 70 seconds of the prisoner compared with the…

…the color the form the morality into the world. Then you've got to accept that you're the one who makes Beethoven as beautiful as he is if you happen. To find Beethoven Particularly beautiful. Beethoven Couldn't exist without somebody who appreciates…

…you've got to accept that you're the one who makes Beethoven as beautiful as he is if you happen. To find Beethoven Particularly beautiful. Beethoven Couldn't exist without somebody who appreciates the beauty and so we're all co creators of Beethoven. It's…

…accept that you're the one who makes Beethoven as beautiful as he is if you happen. To find Beethoven Particularly beautiful. Beethoven Couldn't exist without somebody who appreciates the beauty and so we're all co creators of Beethoven. It's a kind of…

…find Beethoven Particularly beautiful. Beethoven Couldn't exist without somebody who appreciates the beauty and so we're all co creators of Beethoven. It's a kind of incredible thought that neurologically it's true, the music is part of a code created by…

…It's a kind of incredible thought that neurologically it's true, the music is part of a code created by human beings and within that code Beethoven was able to do what he did and if you know enough of that code you can hear what he did. If you don't…

…of our limitations are created by society and I wouldn't Surprise me in the slightest to see anybody turn into another Beethoven or another Einstein or another Aleister Crowley or another James Joyce because those people did it even though they were born…

…was Beethoven's Membership in the illuminati. I made that up out of whole cloth and then to my astonishment I read a biography of Beethoven and by god if he wasn't a member of the illuminati or all of his close friends were he was certainly a freemason…

…are offering a million dollars to anybody who can produce a totally normal human being or an average sunset or a typical Beethoven Symphony or an average playmate of the month. We want something that's totally average in all respects. It can't be found.…

…of identity. I don't know what anything is. I only know how things seem to me. When I hear people arguing about whether Beethoven is better than Mozart, or is Van Gogh a better painter than Picasso, or is Thomas Wolfe a better novelist than William…

…Thomas Wolfe a better novelist than William Faulkner I don't know what the hell they're talking about. All I can talk about is how Beethoven and Mozart seem to me how Van Gogh and Picasso seem to me, how Thomas Wolfe and Faulkner seem to me. I don't…

…that you like best or you feel you decide is most important, just like there are many, many composers, and I think Beethoven is my favorite but I don't go around saying Beethoven is better than Mozart, I just say Beethoven seems better than Mozart…

…is most important, just like there are many, many composers, and I think Beethoven is my favorite but I don't go around saying Beethoven is better than Mozart, I just say Beethoven seems better than Mozart to me most of the time. There are Times I'm…

…many, many composers, and I think Beethoven is my favorite but I don't go around saying Beethoven is better than Mozart, I just say Beethoven seems better than Mozart to me most of the time. There are Times I'm just in the mood for Mozart and it's the…

…aren't fighting words either. It sort of diffuses the whole yeah well it takes the dogmatism out of it. Like I prefer Beethoven to Mozart. I'm afraid people say Beethoven is better than Mozart and arguments get started: I prefer Beethoven how can you…

…of diffuses the whole yeah well it takes the dogmatism out of it. Like I prefer Beethoven to Mozart. I'm afraid people say Beethoven is better than Mozart and arguments get started: I prefer Beethoven how can you argue about that? It just shows you're an…

…Like I prefer Beethoven to Mozart. I'm afraid people say Beethoven is better than Mozart and arguments get started: I prefer Beethoven how can you argue about that? It just shows you're an ignorant slob you don't appreciate Mozart enough but there's nothing…

…of identity. I don't know what anything is, I only know how things seem to me. When I hear people arguing about whether Beethoven is better than Mozart, or is Van Gogh a better painter than Picasso, or is Thomas Wolfe a better novelist than William…

…Wolfe a better novelist than William Faulkner I don't know what the hell they're talking about. All I can talk about is how Beethoven and Mozart seemed to me how Van Gogh and Picasso seemed to me, how Thomas Wolfe and Faulkner seemed to me. I don't…

…one for yourself that you like best or you decide is most important. Just like there are many, many composers and I pick Beethoven as my favorite. But I don't go around saying Beethoven is better than Mozart, I just say Beethoven seems better than Mozart…

…is most important. Just like there are many, many composers and I pick Beethoven as my favorite. But I don't go around saying Beethoven is better than Mozart, I just say Beethoven seems better than Mozart to me most of the time. There are Times I'm just…

…many, many composers and I pick Beethoven as my favorite. But I don't go around saying Beethoven is better than Mozart, I just say Beethoven seems better than Mozart to me most of the time. There are Times I'm just in the mood for Mozart and it's the…

…overrule things that would be deadly to people without that flexibility. Every type of genius I think results from metaprogramming. Beethoven broke through the dimensions of music that nobody even knew existed before him. You can metaprogram yourself into all…

…sexual experiences. Art that's deeply moving. If you've really been carried out of yourself by Beethoven's Ninth, perhaps that's because Beethoven pushed your peptide buttons. And now there are machines to produce peptides. How many people have heard of these…

…things that would be deadly to people. Without that flexibility, every type of genius, I think results from metaprogramming. Beethoven broke through the dimensions of music that nobody even knew existed before him. You can metaprogram yourself into all…

…of Crowley that made major contributions. J w n Sullivan was a major mathematician who wrote absolutely the most brilliant book on Beethoven that anybody has ever written. He was able to make the jump from mathematics to music and to write a really…

…is anybody there? Hello, hello is there anybody there? And long silences. Boy Orson knew how to use silence better than anyone since Beethoven I think and he freaked out the whole country. He said at the time he didn't expect to freak out anybody but…

…overrule things that would be deadly to people without that flexibility. Every type of genius I think results from metaprogramming. Beethoven broke through the dimensions of music that nobody even knew existed before him. You can metaprogram yourself into all…

…gate and Joyce put in everybody who had any coincidental connection with his own name, James or Joyce or even Augusta. Yeah, Beethoven is just the right thing that would use such flattering angles. This film needs a trapeze, no more questions. This is…

…fine. Yeah you used Beethoven's Seventh. Yeah that's what I want to see is a porn movie with when they make schrödinger's cat Beethoven. Yeah the seventh would make a good porn movie score so would the ninth, so would the sixth for that matter, or the…

…or the eighth, for short porn movie. They have those behind the green door one two, three, so they can use a different Beethoven Symphony, oh yeah some of Mozart would go good with a porn movie too I think the late symphonies, the flute concertos, by…

…that's about one tenth and nine tenths. A boy has never wept nor dashed a thousand miles. That's about a third. And false. Beethoven is better than Mozart Mm. Hmm, that's about a third. Beethoven is how many say that's false that's about two thirds. The…

…nor dashed a thousand miles. That's about a third. And false. Beethoven is better than Mozart Mm. Hmm, that's about a third. Beethoven is how many say that's false that's about two thirds. The pope is infallible in matters of faith and morals. How many…

…wept nor dashed a times. That's about a third. And false, how many? How many? Like is better than? That's about a third. Beethoven how many say that's false? That's about two third. The pope is infallible in matters of faith and morals how many say true…

…mathematically relatively true legally relatively true historically relatively true, indeterminate like the planet out beyond pluto, self reflexive like Beethoven is better than rock or rock is better than Beethoven and now we've got poetry. And all of these…

…relatively true, indeterminate like the planet out beyond pluto, self reflexive like Beethoven is better than rock or rock is better than Beethoven and now we've got poetry. And all of these tend to get jammed together into either true or false in our…

…eat red cabbage. Keep your eye out the next time you read the newspaper and see how many meaningless statements you see. Beethoven is better than Mozart I already discussed that one. That's obviously self reflexive. I had the odd experience of finding the…

…eat red cabbage. Keep your eye out the next time you read the newspaper and see how many meaningless statements you see. Beethoven is better than Mozart I already discussed that one. That's obviously self reflexive. I had the odd experience of finding the…

…French. As I was saying before we can master any symbol system we can learn to play chess we can learn to play Beethoven on the piano and the symbolic circuit is the peculiarly human circuit the semantic circuit. The peculiar thing is with the semantic…

…significance to the fact that there are 23 teams in the nba and what insight can this yield for me in playing the Beethoven Appassionata? Oh the appassionata is sonata 23. That's very clever. The mad bomber in airport was in c23 and there are 23…

…predict and Claude Shannon has a very elegant mathematical equation for it. But if you think of the information in a Beethoven Symphony as compared with baroque chamber music, or the information in the first 70 seconds of the prisoner compared with the…

…of darkness. Now I've studied the career of the emperor Josef very closely. By the way the composer's name was Ludwig Van Beethoven. That was his first major composition. Later he moved to Vienna. Most people think of Beethoven as viennese but actually he…

…composer's name was Ludwig Van Beethoven. That was his first major composition. Later he moved to Vienna. Most people think of Beethoven as viennese but actually he was born in Germany. As somebody in Switzerland told me the austrians all claim Beethoven is…

…think of Beethoven as viennese but actually he was born in Germany. As somebody in Switzerland told me the austrians all claim Beethoven is Austrian even though he was born in Germany, and they all claim Hitler was German even though he was born in…

…the United States of Europe seems to be emerging. So the Von Hapsburgs have an interesting history connected with Beethoven, the illuminati, European Unification and alleged Catholic Conspiracies, and the bilderbergers no less. And they may have financed that…

…book of musical theory based on the idea that silence is the most important part of music, a theory which I think Beethoven invented. Think of the pauses in Beethoven. You heard your own breathing yes, you heard little ping sounds from the metal chairs,…

…idea that silence is the most important part of music, a theory which I think Beethoven invented. Think of the pauses in Beethoven. You heard your own breathing yes, you heard little ping sounds from the metal chairs, a door slamming somewhere, water in…

…have dexterity in the right hand. Most tools are made by right handed people. The left handed people tend to become musicians. Beethoven was left handed. A lot of musicians are. You've got to have a very complicated brain and skill at manipulating the…

…bach and Mozart are once you're into a Mozart Piece you know more or less what's coming next. When you're in a Beethoven Piece you never know what's coming next. Punk rock a great anthropologist whose name I forget right now. Punk rock was defined…

…name the wealth of nations by Adam Smith. 1789, the French Revolution, 1810 the first Mexican Revolution, the music of Beethoven, the bolivar revolutions. And what steam engine industrialized the whole world. We came out of an agricultural economy and changed…

…identity. I don't know what anything is, I only know how things seem to me. When I hear people arguing about whether Beethoven is better than Mozart, or is Van Gogh a better painter than Picasso, or is Thomas Wolfe a better novelist than William…

…Wolfe a better novelist than William Faulkner I don't know what the hell they're talking about. All I can talk about is how Beethoven and Mozart seemed to me how Van Gogh and Picasso seemed to me, how Thomas Wolfe and Faulkner seemed to me. I don't…

…one for yourself that you like best or you decide is most important. Just like there are many, many composers and I pick Beethoven as my favorite but I don't go around saying Beethoven is better than Mozart. I just say Beethoven seems better than Mozart…

…is most important. Just like there are many, many composers and I pick Beethoven as my favorite but I don't go around saying Beethoven is better than Mozart. I just say Beethoven seems better than Mozart to me most of the time. There are Times I'm just…

…many, many composers and I pick Beethoven as my favorite but I don't go around saying Beethoven is better than Mozart. I just say Beethoven seems better than Mozart to me most of the time. There are Times I'm just in the mood for Mozart and it's the…

…the grass appears green to me, and this saved me a lot of time. By the way, I don't get embroiled in arguments like Beethoven is better than Mozart or rock is better than soul. I define such things as meaningless and so when people get into arguments…

…rock is better than soul. I define such things as meaningless and so when people get into arguments like that I just say: well, Beethoven seems better to me than Mozart most of the time but I don't say Beethoven is better than Mozart. I return to e…

…into arguments like that I just say: well, Beethoven seems better to me than Mozart most of the time but I don't say Beethoven is better than Mozart. I return to e prime in my thinking whenever I find myself getting angry at somebody or feeling…

…about why can't we get the right types anymore in some order yeah, I mean, you know they used to get people like Beethoven and Mozart and Haydn and Voltaire and Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson and people like that. Now who do they get? Probably…

…feelings of awe. Yeah but I get that from books and movies and music and all sorts of places. I have great reverence for Beethoven, for instance. I don't think Beethoven is going to tell me what to eat for dinner tonight or then it's kind of a cult…

…that from books and movies and music and all sorts of places. I have great reverence for Beethoven, for instance. I don't think Beethoven is going to tell me what to eat for dinner tonight or then it's kind of a cult of personality thing where people…