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"The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing."
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"I began like all composers, writing for small groups. Chamber groups."
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"The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing."
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"I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly to remind myself how much I appreciate Beethoven."
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"The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics."
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"Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries."
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"I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena."
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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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"I loved Hendrix. I mean, really, really loved him. As if he were one of the great classical composers. And he was. That's how I saw him."
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"Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts."
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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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"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
"People are approaching electronic levels in music; although not all of it happens to tickle my fancy."
Music
"The first reason for starting to do the symphony concerts was to play this new piece of mine."
First
"The recording industry has changed; they're enjoying such incredible success in the pop field."
Success
"When I began listening to saxophones, I was first attracted to Coleman Hawkins."
First
"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
"Miles Davis is one who writes songs when he plays."
Music
"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
"In fact, I heard Bird first, and had got well into listening to him. You know, it's the kind of accidental thing that awareness of a player is: what's available, what somebody happens to play for you."
Awareness
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