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John Eaton

"I really write for people."

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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

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"Do you genuinely love people? Or at least make an effort to like them? Your first impressions will be made easier and more successful when you start with your heart."

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"No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible."

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"Clinton... believes that the Washington Press Corps is so out of touch that it is absolutely inconceivable that reporters would understand the issues that people are really dealing with in their lives."

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"Well, let me, first of all, say, that as a microtonal composer, I've never been much of a theorist."
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"I think the composer and production staff of an opera have a real responsibility to use visual elements of all kinds to make clear to the American audience, at any rate, exactly what is going on."
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"The way that I got involved with microtonal music was, frankly, through jazz."
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"It's not important to me to found a school; it's not important to me to have disciples."
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"We need it to capture the energy of contemporary life."
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"However, yes, especially as one gets older, you know, you really hope that your music will become more generally available, even though some of the performances might be riddled with faults."
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"We need to have as broad a range as possible, because life itself has that kind of range."
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"In other words, I think that if an audience listens to something as an experience of how in tune it is or something of that kind, that the whole point is somehow being missed, and the music has failed."
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"Well, opera began with an intent to resuscitate Greek drama, that is, modern opera as we know it."
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"I think a lot of composers get into trouble just making up a plot and expecting an audience to follow that."
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