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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 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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"Many composers today don't know what the human throat is."
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"Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism."
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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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"The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers."
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"How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above?"
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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?"
Cats
"No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you're going to fail."
Relativity
"Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers."
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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
"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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"Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer."
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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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