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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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"I've heard though that there is a younger generation of tonal French composers who are reacting with vigour."
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"The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing."
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"Perhaps two million years ago the creatures of a planet in some remote galaxy faced a musical crisis similar to that which we earthly composers face today."
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"Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere."
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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 was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena."
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"I began like all composers, writing for small groups. Chamber groups."
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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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"There are no black film composers doing the likes of Star Wars, doing the likes of E.T., doing the likes of Jurassic Park. There are none, nor will there ever be one. That ain't about to happen!"
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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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"The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers."
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"Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer."
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"We can certainly go further than cats, but why should it be that our brains are somehow so suited to the universe that our brains will be able to understand the deepest workings?"
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"A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision."
Theory
"How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above?"
Universe
"I have long thought that anyone who does not regularly - or ever - gaze up and see the wonder and glory of a dark night sky filled with countless stars loses a sense of their fundamental connectedness to the universe."
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"No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you're going to fail."
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"If the theory turns out to be right, that will be tremendously thick and tasty icing on the cake."
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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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