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"This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it."
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"Music is the primordial language of life. That is why we love it so much. Actually every animal can hear and understand music better than we do."
"If I had the choice, I would sing only love songs."
"He had a theory that musicians are incredibly complex, and know far less than other artists what they want and what they are; that they puzzle themselves as well as their friends; that their psychology is a modern development, and has not yet been understood."
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"The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names."
"One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things."
"People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me."
"I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music."
"When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd been writing since I was 11."
"The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles."
"Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it."
"I don't have ideas so much as there are things which constantly evolve... there are various threads or layers, if you like, which change."
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