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"I've just simply used what I've used because of the great, great expressive potential of it."
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"So fine was the morning except for a streak of wind here and there that the sea and sky looked all one fabric, as if sails were stuck high up in the sky, or the clouds had dropped down into the sea."
"It must have been an endless breathing in: between the wish to know and the wish to praise there was no seam."
"It's too short,' she said, 'ever so much too short.' Never did anybody look so sad. Bitter and black, half-way down, in the darkness, in the shaft which ran from the sunlight to the depths, perhaps a tear formed; a tear fell; the waters swayed this way and that, received it, and were at rest. Never did anybody look so sad."
"Life is a luminous halo a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning."
"Air of dustFor a moment I was a storm cloud,All righteous booming thunder;All sharp and pinning,Dazzling.Once the flashing fadedA sizzling prong sprang upwards.I was positively popped.The static situationStruck meNegatively, And I leaked out sulfur on the peopleWho dared hold up the sky.Strong storms are still bonelessAnd mostly all alone."
"The flowers were beaten down, their bent-over heads bejeweled with diamond droplets like earring on sad, rich widows."
"I've just simply used what I've used because of the great, great expressive potential of it."
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"What's important for me is to communicate the vision that I have in sound with the audience that's hearing it."
"Well, opera began with an intent to resuscitate Greek drama, that is, modern opera as we know it."
"I think one of the greatest enemies in the use of technology, however, is the idea that if you use the technology you have to throw other things out of the window."
"However, yes, especially as one gets older, you know, you really hope that your music will become more generally available, even though some of the performances might be riddled with faults."
"I'm thinking in terms of a point of departure, a field of action for performers to express an expressive need of mine which hopefully the context of music would convey."
"But nevertheless, it's music ultimately that matters in opera, and opera is a piece of music reaching out as a vision in sound reaching out to the world."
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