"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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"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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"Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast."

Carlisle Floyd, American Composer

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"There are no black film composers doing the likes of Star Wars, doing the likes of E.T., doing the likes of Jurassic Park. There are none, nor will there ever be one. That ain't about to happen!"

J. J. Johnson, American Musician

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"Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries."

Brian Ferneyhough, British Composer

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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."

Andres Segovia, Spanish Musician

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

Gavin Bryars, English Composer

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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."

Jascha Heifetz, American Musician

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"Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully."

Johannes Brahms, German Composer

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

Anton Rubinstein, Russian Musician

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"The composers could no longer direct all performances in person, and so the responsibility of interpreting their works in the spirit in which they had been conceived was placed upon conductors."

Anton Seidl, Hungarian Celebrity

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"Other composers have taken this particular technique much further than I in the meantime, with the result that the Law of Diminishing Returns has begun to apply."

Brian Ferneyhough, British Composer

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"Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music."

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"So I guess I had, I think they tell me I had, about three years total of piano lessons, off and on."

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"The primary one being, like I said, I don't like rock 'n' roll piano."

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"I mean, I haven't been completely lacking in some enjoyment of Chuck Berry or Buddy Holly. But I just didn't pay attention to that period of music, obviously."

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"I missed jazz, kind of. And by the time I came to it in life, it was too intimidating to enjoy thoroughly."

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"Duncan Aldrich has been my partner in most recording projects, and touring projects, for the past decade."

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"I'll sleep when I'm dead."

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"Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast."

"There are no black film composers doing the likes of Star Wars, doing the likes of E.T., doing the likes of Jurassic Park. There are none, nor will there ever be one. That ain't about to happen!"

"Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries."

"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."

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

"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."

"Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully."

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

"The composers could no longer direct all performances in person, and so the responsibility of interpreting their works in the spirit in which they had been conceived was placed upon conductors."

"Other composers have taken this particular technique much further than I in the meantime, with the result that the Law of Diminishing Returns has begun to apply."

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"Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music."

"I have no guitar technique."

"I'm not a big jazz fan."

"My first album is like a terrible John Hammond album, with drums."

"So I guess I had, I think they tell me I had, about three years total of piano lessons, off and on."

"The primary one being, like I said, I don't like rock 'n' roll piano."

"I mean, I haven't been completely lacking in some enjoyment of Chuck Berry or Buddy Holly. But I just didn't pay attention to that period of music, obviously."

"I missed jazz, kind of. And by the time I came to it in life, it was too intimidating to enjoy thoroughly."

"Duncan Aldrich has been my partner in most recording projects, and touring projects, for the past decade."

"I'll sleep when I'm dead."