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"I've heard though that there is a younger generation of tonal French composers who are reacting with vigour."

"Pianists call me a composer, composers call me a pianist. The classicists think me a futurist, and the futurists call me a reactionary."

"Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism."

"I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena."

"Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries."
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"With the internet, things are so much more immediate. People taste-test things to see if they want to buy the CD."

"No matter how great we get with digital formats of instrumentation, nothing really quite duplicates the real thing."

"Black music has increased my enjoyment of what I do. It has increased my range, my ability to reach into myself and accept myself."

"When I started studying for the arias it was like going into training for a heavyweight title fight."

"To sing along with Stevie Wonder, you had to make your voice do things it was not accustomed to doing."

"It's understanding the intention of a composer that allows a producer and an arranger to make those moments speak."
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