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"I think there are influences that you open the door to, and influences that come under the door."
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"It is still an open question, however, as to what extent exposure really injures a performer."

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"Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it."

"People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me."

"One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things."

"The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude."

"When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd been writing since I was 11."

"There are rhythmic ideas which sometimes only work up to a point. In writing there are moments when it just comes off the page, it's not just a collection of notes."
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