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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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"Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up."
"Success is a process of learning, growth, progression and faithfulness."
"Before you accomplish your dreams physically, your inner make up, mindset, emotions and perception have fought the battle mentally and that already determined how the battle will be fought physically."
"Then, without postponing anything, build a structure that will allow you to transform this vision into reality."
"You will never be rewarded for the dreams you slept over day in day out. You will be rewarded for dreams you stay awake and achieved."
"We have a chance to wind down and expedite the removal of 96 percent of the world's nuclear weapons. What an achievement it would be, if at the end of the next administration, we could say that the nuclear arsenals of both Russia and the United States had been reduced to the barest minimums."
"Greatness is the quality of time converted into production or value."
"It is a must to excel in our work."
"Greatness is an attainment bought with the currency of time."
"I made my name. What does this mean? It means that a man has successfully graduated through the process of inner self-development."
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"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."
"Other composers have taken this particular technique much further than I in the meantime, with the result that the Law of Diminishing Returns has begun to apply."
"I frequently compose out the entire metric structure of a piece in modified cyclic form, where each cyclic revolution undergoes some form of 'variation' much as if measure lengths were concrete musical 'material.'"
"This was possible only by dint of extended periods of frequently quite painful reflection and digestion."
"Certainly being in California has encouraged a sustained commitment to rethinking the nature, purposes, and relevance of the contemporary arts, specifically music, for a society which by and large seems to manage quite well without them."
"Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries."
"My own position is, that it is largely up to the work itself to suggest the nature of these referential points without dimensions in and through the processes by which the distance between them is maintained."
"I don't see 'lines of force' as being destructive, except to the extent that they are exclusively traceable through observance of the path of distorted material left in their wake."
"What makes a specific quality or quantity of innovation retain its intense newness over the years?"
"Actually, most things I say in public lead more or less directly to my own compositional practice, so I should be careful about generalizing lest they come back to haunt me."
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