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"The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing."
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"When I began, the guitar was en-closed in a vicious circle. There were no composers writing for the guitar, be-cause there were no virtuoso guitarists."
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"Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast."
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"The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing."
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"Composers are always going back to the past."
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"Pianists call me a composer, composers call me a pianist. The classicists think me a futurist, and the futurists call me a reactionary."
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"Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers."
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"In Hollywood, the rainbow hits the ground for composers."
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"When you have great songs that are going to live longer than the composers, everything you can do to bring those different elements and nuances out, serve the song."
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"Many composers today don't know what the human throat is."
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"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."
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"The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing."
Composer
"This life of being a transient human being has gotten to a point when it's very hard to bear."
Life
"Now, the instrumentation in the jazz band and the jazz dance band has gone through many evolutions. For instance, in the 'twenties the tradition was two or three saxophones."
Dance
"When we've finished the current tour I'm going to go back to Italy and see if I can do some more writing."
Italy
"I've appeared on some other people's albums."
People
"People talk about innovations and evolutions and that kind of thing; I don't understand about that nonsense. It's like, all instruments are there to use all the time."
Time
"New York is still where I live most of the time."
Time
"If you've only got one horn playing, I still want the sense of ensemble."
Sense
"Miles Davis is one who writes songs when he plays."
Music
"Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately."
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