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"I began like all composers, writing for small groups. Chamber groups."
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"The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing."
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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."
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"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."
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"Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries."
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"Many composers today don't know what the human throat is."
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"Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism."
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"I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena."
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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."
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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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"At Bloomington, Indiana, I was invited to listen to music written in quarter tones for four harps and voices. I had to go out to be sick."
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"Many composers today don't know what the human throat is."
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"There are names I do not want mentioned in my home."
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