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"I began like all composers, writing for small groups. Chamber groups."
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"The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing."
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"I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly to remind myself how much I appreciate Beethoven."
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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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"Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries."
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"Many composers today don't know what the human throat is."
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"Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism."
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"I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena."
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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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"I loved Hendrix. I mean, really, really loved him. As if he were one of the great classical composers. And he was. That's how I saw him."
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"One song will launch you, but you don't want to be a one-song artist."
Artist
"For years I've kept a list of dream projects."
Dream
"It's understanding the intention of a composer that allows a producer and an arranger to make those moments speak."
Intention
"I have to be happy in the here and now because every time you start focusing on your legacy you're really setting yourself up for disappointment."
Time
"Someone told me there was a publisher that could find a good home for my songs, but I didn't want to give up my pursuit of a career in the business as an artist."
Business
"You can't make everybody love what you do, but you can know how great you feel doing it."
Love
"A lot of my success comes from black music. It's something I'm very proud of."
Success
"With the internet, things are so much more immediate. People taste-test things to see if they want to buy the CD."
People
"Whoever best serves the song is going to be served by the song."
Music
"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."
Music
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