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"There are no black film composers doing the likes of Star Wars, doing the likes of E.T., doing the likes of Jurassic Park. There are none, nor will there ever be one. That ain't about to happen!"
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"I've heard though that there is a younger generation of tonal French composers who are reacting with vigour."
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"Perhaps two million years ago the creatures of a planet in some remote galaxy faced a musical crisis similar to that which we earthly composers face today."
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"Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere."
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"Then I started listenin' a lot to classical composers. Piano works. Just to see what they were doin'. That sort of put me in a different groove to try to blend all that in."
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"I have tremendous respect for film composers."
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"Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism."
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"Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts."
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"Well, let me, first of all, say, that as a microtonal composer, I've never been much of a theorist."
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"The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics."
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"The composers could no longer direct all performances in person, and so the responsibility of interpreting their works in the spirit in which they had been conceived was placed upon conductors."
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"There are no black film composers doing the likes of Star Wars, doing the likes of E.T., doing the likes of Jurassic Park. There are none, nor will there ever be one. That ain't about to happen!"
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"I was lucky enough to occasionally break out of that racist situation that prevails in the Hollywood film production community. But it was racist then and it will always be that way. It will never be otherwise."
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"Sometimes you need to stand with your nose to the window and have a good look at jazz. And I've done that on many occasions."
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