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"I never feel that my music is sparse or minimalist; the way fat people never really think they're fat. I certainly don't consider myself minimalist at all."
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"A song is anything that can walk by itself."
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"People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas."
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"All truthful music is familiar to the ear, for its notes were written into our souls long ago."
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"This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway."
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"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."
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"Strains of music spring up, crystallizing in the night air like rain turning suddenly to snow, drifting to earth."
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"A tapping foot isn't the best a listener can get from a song: A good song makes a listener dance. A great song makes him think."
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"Music has always gotten me through life, particularly honest, real music."
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"I aim my arrangements at what will fit and colorfully frame the song in the best way possible."
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"I don't use old music."
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"I want to give my compliments to Australia. Ever since your government paid a few million dollars for a Jackson Pollack painting, I figure that it must be a marvellous country."
Government
"I've been living with the minor second all my life and I finally found a way to handle it."
Life
"No one has the Houdini school of composition."
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"Any professional knows that the flute and the piano is a boring combination. All you've got to arrive at is a kind of typical gestural crap, right? You might agree, though you wouldn't call it gestural crap."
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"I never feel that my music is sparse or minimalist; the way fat people never really think they're fat. I certainly don't consider myself minimalist at all."
Music
"I was once married to a woman who could eat anything and tell you what was in it: the most complicated recipes. Her memory of taste - now that's what I call memory!"
Memory
"For me it's the instrument. If I want to think of a flute and the state of the arts I hear a vibrato; I don't know what a flute is unless the person plays it for me."
State
"If you think you might have secret information listening to me, you're lost."
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"Since music has never had a Rembrandt, we have remained nothing more than musicians."
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"Music is essentially built upon primitive memory structures."
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