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"Actually, most things I say in public lead more or less directly to my own compositional practice, so I should be careful about generalizing lest they come back to haunt me."
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"You don't need to be a great singer to sing, but you have to practice singing to be a great singer."
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"Start the daily practice of joyful living."
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"When life is tough, use Cosmic Ordering. When life is great, use Cosmic Ordering."
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"It takes lot of practice to get it right."
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"Life is a practice. When you 'fail,' you can immediately begin practicing again."
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"No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice."
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"Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice."
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"It takes a lot of practices to get it right. The key is to keep practicing."
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"As you jump new hurdles, you gain greater confidence. Confidence can be achieved like any other practiced skill."
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"Most of the people readily accept the principle but resist its practice."
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"Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries."
Composer
"What makes a specific quality or quantity of innovation retain its intense newness over the years?"
Quality
"As a necessary prerequisite to the creation of new forms of expression one might, I suppose, argue that current sensibilities respond uniquely to the notion of exhaustion as exhaustion, although that does de facto seem rather limiting."
Creation
"The idea of 'machine assemblage' is, especially, very alien to my sensibility, since it suggests a relative indifference of the strata to one another during the process of construction."
Idea
"Other composers have taken this particular technique much further than I in the meantime, with the result that the Law of Diminishing Returns has begun to apply."
Composer
"There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation."
Art
"I frequently compose out the entire metric structure of a piece in modified cyclic form, where each cyclic revolution undergoes some form of 'variation' much as if measure lengths were concrete musical 'material.'"
Revolution
"The past nine years in San Diego have represented such a period of questioning."
Past
"When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance as a composition teacher would benefit from a certain cool distance to certain tendencies I had been observing for several years with increasing disquiet."
Thought
"Certainly being in California has encouraged a sustained commitment to rethinking the nature, purposes, and relevance of the contemporary arts, specifically music, for a society which by and large seems to manage quite well without them."
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