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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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"This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented 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."
"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."
"The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names."
"One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things."
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