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"Mozart wrote so many works in his thirty-five years that it would take a lifetime just to write out the notes. We literally do not know how he did it."
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"There has been so much rubbish written up in the papers over the years."
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"I have spent a lot of years on the outside looking in."
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"I worked with Lawrence Olivier some years ago. He was a great mentor."
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"I was recruited to teach 9-year-olds. I taught for two years."
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"It took me years to figure out that you don't fall into a tub of butter, you jump for it."
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"I must have done everything I had. You go through years where you go through everything you've ever written."
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"For the last few years, it's been so chic for everybody to be miserable. Like if you're in with the cool crowd, you can't be happy."
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"I was raised in Brooklyn, and I lived there for 59 years."
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"You can only hold your stomach in for so many years."
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"I was married for 30 years. Isn't that enough? I've had my share of dirty underwear on the floor."
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"Any creator owes a debt to past creation."
Creation
"I still do not know where the notes will come from when I accept a commission for a new work."
Work
"I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen."
Art
"For years that may mean imitation. Then, one day, it is like a door opening, and a new thought comes in. Why not try this instead. Suddenly he is doing something original, almost in spite of himself."
Thought
"As I sit down and start to work, I often panic. I stare at the empty piece of music paper. How can I say that my piece will be ready for performance next January when I do not have a recipe for making it happen?"
Music
"If one uses music that one does not really love, then one will not succeed in making it one's own."
Music
"Anybody can put things together that belong together. to put things together that don't go together, and make it work, that takes genius like Mozart's. Yet he is presented in the play Amadeus as a kind of silly boy whom the gods loved."
Work
"When I went back to visit my native Berlin after World War II, I noticed that the only thing I really remembered from my childhood Berlin days is the shoe store."
War
"The fact that Stravinsky used the classics as a major influence is obvious. What is interesting is how he used them, how he turned Bach into Stravinsky."
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"Most people think an artist tries to be original, but originality is the last thing that develops in the artist."
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