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"Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries."
"Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism."
"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."
"I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena."
"The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics."
"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."
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