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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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"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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"Tahiti has been spoiled for many years, but Bali is one of the few cultures with origins in one of the great ancient cultures which is still alive."
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"Almost every other Western in the last ten years has failed, since Dances with Wolves."
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"I am thrilled to have been able to put together this new album. I listened to everything I had recorded in the 24 years with Elektra, and then just took all the ones I am mad about."
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"Best two rock voices I've heard in a last few years both have been from grunge bands: it's Eddie Vedder and the other one is Chris Cornell from Soundgarden."
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"Well, these days, if you're away five years, you might not be able to get back."
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"I was thrilled, because I like the big screen and I could then move on to the next thing. It was the biggest break for me. In a way, though, I wish it had been a TV series because then you are working for five years."
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"For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string."
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"I have accomplished a lot, but it didn't happen overnight for me. I was 35 when I got the show, and had been working professionally for 15 years. It would be a lot weirder if I were in my early 20s and stumbled into it."
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"Just five years before that the Russians were our allies."
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"Great music does not just make me feel good. It means something. It makes us understand. It makes us happy."
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"My students frequently ask what their next project should be. My advice: immerse yourself in the music you love and you will find what you want to do; you will discover your next project."
Love
"I still do not know where the notes will come from when I accept a commission for a new work."
Work
"If one uses music that one does not really love, then one will not succeed in making it one's own."
Music
"I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen."
Art
"That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it."
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"There is another interesting paradox here: by immersing ourselves in what we love, we find ourselves. We do not lose ourselves. One does not lose one's identity by falling in love."
Love
"It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts."
Invention
"The creative act is like writing a letter. A letter is a project; you don't sit down to write a letter unless you know what you want to say and to whom you want to say it."
Act
"I strongly suggest that we play down basics like who influenced whom, and instead study the way the influence is transformed, in other words: how the artist made it his own."
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