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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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"Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plow. The trick is just to wake thmem up, to sharpen their ears for what's already there in the music."
Music
"Rather, I believe that it is very good, if, with the aid of his songs, we can be reminded, among other things, of the social conditions under which Schubert had to work."
Work
"What concerns me, is the general social tendency to enforce a level, above which nothing rises and stands out."
Nothing
"The composition of a single melody is born out of a bit of text, perhaps the first line, but it can also be the entire strophe; it can even be the poem's overall form."
First
"The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it."
Books
"Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts."
Composer
"I came together with younger musicians and tried to pass on my own experiences. In the process, I always tried to maintain my curiosity and spontaneity."
Curiosity
"It's not all that different with the orchestra. There are orchestras that seem to be encased in dough, so that first you have to break through the normal routine, and clear out the openings."
First
"Unfortunately, it happens all too seldom that you really disappear behind a work, that you are no longer audible as an interpreter."
Work
"But, on the other hand, if Schubert were alive today, he would find even richer fields to plow."
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"I loved Hendrix. I mean, really, really loved him. As if he were one of the great classical composers. And he was. That's how I saw him."
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"I have tremendous respect for film composers."
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"Pianists call me a composer, composers call me a pianist. The classicists think me a futurist, and the futurists call me a reactionary."
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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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"Many composers today don't know what the human throat is."
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"Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism."
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"I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly to remind myself how much I appreciate Beethoven."
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"When I began, the guitar was en-closed in a vicious circle. There were no composers writing for the guitar, be-cause there were no virtuoso guitarists."
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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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"I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena."
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