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"That was more or less coincidental in the sense that my parents wanted me to come back to New York because that's the center of musical activity still to this day, more or less, and so I auditioned for the Metropolitan Opera."
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"So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way."
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"Better one's House be too little one day than too big all the Year after."
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"So foul and fair a day I have not seen."
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"It's not what you do once in a while, it's what you do day in and day out that makes the difference."
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"Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead."
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"We want to shut down the day laborer site. This day laborer site undermines and violates federal immigration law, and it can't go forward."
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"At the end of the day, the numbers that we're hearing are not going to be totally correct or not correct at all."
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"Sometimes I'm uncomfortable with the level of fame I've got! It all depends on the day and what's going on. I don't desire any more fame. I don't need it."
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"When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing."
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"I am amazed; until the day I die I shall wonder how Whittaker Chambers got into my house to use my typewriter."
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"So this anchoring in some way, in some important way in the past without repeating the past, but on the basis of the past building something new: that is what is important."
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"And it is this sense that some of us have to contribute to the culture, to the society in ways that may hurt financially, so what? We do it because we are born to do it, we feel we have no other choice and so be it."
Society
"That was more or less coincidental in the sense that my parents wanted me to come back to New York because that's the center of musical activity still to this day, more or less, and so I auditioned for the Metropolitan Opera."
Day
"After the war, once the bop revolution had taken hold, there were all kinds of young musicians, talented young musicians, who were ready for this fusion of classical and jazz."
War
"So now, thirty years, forty years later, I mean, I could find a whole orchestra of a thousand to put these things together in New York City alone. In those days, if I could scrape up twenty musicians to do this it was something extraordinary."
Musicians
"Because I have sixty years of being a professional composer, conductor, musician, whatever, and you develop a lot of friendships and you get involved with a lot of sort of long-term commitments and obligations."
Being
"Well, because music is my life and music is not work for me."
Life
"I don't hate work, composing is not work for me, it's my pleasure; it's my life. So why should I stop? If something is pleasurable and exciting and rewarding, why should one stop?"
Work
"The record company started as an adjunct to that, to give young composers their first recorded performances; to give young musicians their first debut on a recording. These are all things that big record companies would never touch because there is no money in it!"
Money
"But somehow, I felt no inclination to be interested in it in any amateur way, let alone professional, until suddenly I became interested. And the first thing I did was to compose: not play an instrument, but to compose."
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