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"There are certain people who have become better artists, but they're brilliant at marketing. I think someone who's been phenomenal like that is Madonna."
People
"It's understanding the intention of a composer that allows a producer and an arranger to make those moments speak."
Intention
"Dr. King is so inspiring, so impressive, so moving as a human being."
Being
"Considering the amount of information we're bombarded by, it's amazing if a song can transcend time."
Time
"For years I've kept a list of dream projects."
Dream
"You can't make everybody love what you do, but you can know how great you feel doing it."
Love
"Black music has increased my enjoyment of what I do. It has increased my range, my ability to reach into myself and accept myself."
Music
"No matter how great we get with digital formats of instrumentation, nothing really quite duplicates the real thing."
Nothing
"A lot of the greatest compositions were made famous by Sinatra."
Famous
"I kept looking to do songs that were written years ago and would live or outlive all of us, and the one thing they had in common was Sinatra."
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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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"Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism."
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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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"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."
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"The composers could no longer direct all performances in person, and so the responsibility of interpreting their works in the spirit in which they had been conceived was placed upon conductors."
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"Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully."
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"Composers are not all good conductors."
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"The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing."
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"When you have great songs that are going to live longer than the composers, everything you can do to bring those different elements and nuances out, serve the song."
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