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"I think I came back from America a funnier and nicer person than I went."
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"If all our comrades of Europe, America and other countries, who do not understand what we are doing to Spanish Anarchism, would come to Spain, we could then see how they would react."
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"When I came to America in the '60s, it was the place to be. I wonder if I'd come here today."
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"America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few."
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"Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected."
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"The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts."
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"An asylum for the sane would be empty in America."
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"I think Australians do well here because we feel a bit naughty, like we're in America and if they only knew how much fun we were having, we'd all get thrown out, you know."
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"Elvis' disappearing body is like a flashing event horizon at the edge of the black hole that is America today."
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"America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there."
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"It's necessary to track characters all the way through an opera. If you're dealing with more than one or two characters, it's very easy to forget that the others have lives of their own that feed into the story."
Forget
"What is American music? The most satisfying answer I've come across is that it was a kind of natural comfort with the vernacular which is diverse and regional; it's not one particular set of sounds."
Music
"I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references."
Music
"People in very high places suddenly fall, and we are always surprised because we don't factor in the basic element that they're humans and, therefore, they are flawed and have weaknesses."
People
"If an American audience is given a serious musical theater piece that is well produced, dramatically gripping and wonderfully acted, they'll respond to it."
American
"It's amazing how fast generations lose sight of other generations. One of the first things the young composers who come to work with me say is that they want to write music people will like, instead of gaining their credentials by being rejected by the audience."
Music
"You can't possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, you're doomed."
Will
"The performances of my works in the last 10 years are probably equal to all the previous years put together. There are so many venues now and there is a completely new public for opera that's grown up outside of the traditional core opera public."
Now
"I think anything that is expressed directly and as honestly as possible will last."
Will
"Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them."
Art
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