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"Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore."
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"Nothing Functions Normally Apart From The Principles Of The Kingdom Of God."
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"Restoring order of my personal universe suddenly seemed imperative, as I refolded my T-shirts, stuffed the toes of my shoes with tissue paper, and arranged all the bills in my secret stash box facing the same way, instead of tossed in sloppy and wild, as if by my evil twin. All week, I kept making lists and crossing things off them, ending each day with a sense of great accomplishment eclipsed only by complete and total exhaustion."
"A lot of films need planning in order to survive at all. It's part of the dog and pony show."
"Overrated is order."
"I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane."
"But when the world is, indeed, in chaos, then an affirmation of cosmos becomes essential."
"He doesn't blame people for many sins, but he does hate uncoordination, the root of all evil, as he feels it, for without coordination there can be no order, no connecting."
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"I've known those pieces ever since I was about 16 or 17; I also at that time was taken to meet Charles Ives whom I got to know fairly well. He was the one who wrote a recommendation for me to get into college."
"Aaron Copland was a man that had a very specific point of view about what music should be which was that, he felt that new music should have the composer should show a personality in his music."
"That was one of the big problems when I was at Harvard studying music. We had to write choral pieces in the style of Brahms or Mendelssohn, which was distressing because in the end you realized how good Brahms is, and how bad you are."
"Since I'm allergic to various things, the army wouldn't accept me during the war, and I got into the Office of War Information, which sent music to Europe."
"Almost every one of my various zero numbered birthdays has had a big concert in London and often in Paris."
"Then, when the Depression came, all of this changed completely. Since that time, the entire public is of a very different sort and there was not so much support for contemporary music in a direct way."
"In any case, Ives encouraged me to go into music even though he himself had such a hard time being a composer."
"These wealthy people were very interested in contemporary music. They wanted to help diffuse it and get it to be known to other people."
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