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"For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on now to something else."

"We haven't sat down with Scott and Caroline and said, Now you realize that there's X amount of pounds of thrust. And this can happen and that can happen."
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"I just found out about 10 days ago that I must live 300 or 400 yards from Britney Spears... so now I have to move."
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"Just think how happy you would be if you lost everything you have right now, and then got it back again."

"It's a heavy weight, the camera. Now we have modern and lightweight, small plastic cameras, but in the '70s they were heavy metal."
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"The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all."

"I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer."

"As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien."

"Somehow in the 20th Century an idea has developed that music is an activity or skill which is not comprehensible to the man in the street. This is an arrogant assertion and not necessarily a true one."

"Like an apparently strict musical form it breaks the five minute whole into its structural parts - a descriptive preamble, the action of taking the cards, the development of the cards' manipulation and the revelation of what has been achieved."

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

"I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology."

"I remember once, when I started writing for the alto saxophone, a saxophonist told me to think of it as being like a cross between an oboe and a viola, but louder."
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