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Harrison Birtwistle

"When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18."

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"When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18."

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"It's the irrational things that interest me."
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"There are rhythmic ideas which sometimes only work up to a point. In writing there are moments when it just comes off the page, it's not just a collection of notes."
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"Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it."
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"When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18."
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"The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude."
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"I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music."
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"In the end it doesn't matter what you do."
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"Music is such a problem in the time it takes."
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"When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted."
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"People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me."
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