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"With respect to the respective French and German traditions you are no doubt correct, although I am reluctant to see individual achievement reduced to archetypes."
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"Don't pay attention to people Who tell you can't do it at lenght. Trusting your own instincts Can lead to what's quintessential. Make their limitation be your strenght. You might as well contradict them And then reach your full potential."
"Don't measure life against time. Measure life by the milestones you have reached."
"No wrong in aiming or applauding the win but always agnize one's efforts."
"Everyday, do more than you could; seek more than you should; understand more than is understood. Thus only a man stops being a hood."
"Cowards say it can't be done, critics say it shouldn't have been done, creator say well done."
"All good and great hunters once upon a time shot wrongly, missed a good prey, went home tired and weary without a prey and they also met the most heart breaking moments, but regardless their slips and challenges, their biggest glory always came from the wildest animals they could kill with their mere weapons!"
"Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement."
"At the end of the day, you either want or you don't want to know about it. It's a mercy thing - you have to give back. However you do it, you have to give something back. You have to."
"When we fail we pursue the success.When we succeed we party."
"A dreamer must be discovered working or working on it or it is reduced to a wish."
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"This was possible only by dint of extended periods of frequently quite painful reflection and digestion."
"Hence my obstinate emphasis on stylistic continuity from work to work rather than specific sibling relationships between the individual work and other members of its stylistic 'family' in the world outside."
"The idea of 'machine assemblage' is, especially, very alien to my sensibility, since it suggests a relative indifference of the strata to one another during the process of construction."
"In my model, important interference phenomena arise when individual strata come into contact. These chaotic fluctuations are, I suppose, what my music is really 'about.'"
"There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation."
"If the work of art is to continue pursuing the vision of both being in and of the world but nevertheless in some fashion being more than just one more object to the mounting clutter, this is the specific point, I think, where this must be assured."
"I am certainly not arguing for the de facto autonomy of the individual work, even though there is much to be said for making the attempt to see it in that light as one facet of the reception process."
"Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries."
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