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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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"I've heard though that there is a younger generation of tonal French composers who are reacting with vigour."
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"The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing."
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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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"Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers."
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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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"Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast."
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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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"In Hollywood, the rainbow hits the ground for composers."
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"I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena."
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"I began like all composers, writing for small groups. Chamber groups."
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"But the thing that will always occupy me the most is music."
Music
"If you only do little clusters - three or four songs by one, and another, and then yet another - you lose the opportunity to think your way into the composer's mind, since, after all, most of these pieces are quite brief."
Opportunity
"Which is why, in my lieder concerts, I always strove, when possible, to sing only the works of a single composer, so that the audience could be gradually drawn into a particular creative genius' way of thinking, and could follow him."
Genius
"When you go out onto the stage, all the preparation has to be forced into your subconscious. For the moment of the performance, we all have to return to a new level of unconsciousness. All the reflection and all the doubts have to be laid aside before you start."
Performance
"You can't do opera when already from the 10th row you can only see little dolls on the stage. In such an enormous space you can't put much faith in the personal presence of the individual singer, which is reflected in facial expressions, among other things."
Faith
"Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of course, from America, and we must resist it: levelling, and imitation of what others are already doing."
America
"What concerns me, is the general social tendency to enforce a level, above which nothing rises and stands out."
Nothing
"But, on the other hand, if Schubert were alive today, he would find even richer fields to plow."
Today
"In fact, the element of play has an important role in my life, and I think that should be the case in the life of every artist. Our life is occupied with playing, whether we play an instrument or a role."
Life
"The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it."
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