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Harrison Birtwistle

"I think there are influences that you open the door to, and influences that come under the door."

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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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"Beck said he didn't believe in the theory of a song coming through you as if you were an open vessel. I agree with him to a certain extent."

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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."
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"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."
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"One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things."
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"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."
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"In the end it doesn't matter what you do."
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"My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces."
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"When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18."
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"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."
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"My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter."
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"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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