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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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"My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces."
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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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"My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter."
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"The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles."
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"The piece that had a large influence on me was Turangalila."
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