top of page
.png){kind=small}
"When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Age quotes
"Old age is not a limitation or that your time have expired. Retirement is not that you are tired.You have more experience."
"In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest."
Age,
"There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age."
"It doesn't matter how old you are.It does matter how much you care."
Explore more quotes by Harrison Birtwistle
"The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names."
"This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it."
"My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific!"
"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."
"One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things."
"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."
"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."
bottom of page