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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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"Miles Davis had me play and he hired me the following week and after that, everything broke wide open."
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"We tried burying the waste at sea and the concrete cannisters that held it cracked open."
"When these suckers had formed roots in the open ground, or kind of nursery where they were planted, they were looked over and the best taken up for potting."
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"It makes you more open, it gives you perspective, having a child."
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"The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names."
"This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it."
"My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific!"
"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."
"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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