"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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"This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it."

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"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!"

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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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"My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter."

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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 wrote music as soon as I knew notation."

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"The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names."

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"I don't think there is much American music."

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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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"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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