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"I've heard though that there is a younger generation of tonal French composers who are reacting with vigour."
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"Perhaps two million years ago the creatures of a planet in some remote galaxy faced a musical crisis similar to that which we earthly composers face today."
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"Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere."
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"I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena."
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"I began like all composers, writing for small groups. Chamber groups."
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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!"
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"Then I started listenin' a lot to classical composers. Piano works. Just to see what they were doin'. That sort of put me in a different groove to try to blend all that in."
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"I have tremendous respect for film composers."
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"Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism."
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"Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts."
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"I began like all composers, writing for small groups. Chamber groups."
Composer
"A maverick feels like he has no choice however difficult his choice of expression. In my case, it was going backwards into tonality. It seemed so wrong. The idea that progress is going into the past in a new way is very strange, even though there are precedents."
Idea
"Well, American composers are the best composers. At this time in the world, we are where the energy is. We are the most diverse, the most iconoclastic, the most maverick, and the most skillful."
Time
"When I first wrote for orchestra, I didn't realize, when you have 20 people playing a violin line, that is very different than one person playing that line."
People
"Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments."
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