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"Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low."

"Love and attraction is the magnetic language of the heart."

"The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance."

"When you've finished a piece of work you've had a kind of love affair with it."
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"The structural thinking I use in the concert hall is unnecessary to most film projects, and most film composers make better use of the enormous range of pop and other materials and techniques required of them than I probably would, faced with the same challenge."

"What I think of as style - and I've gotten to this over years of really thinking about it - is that style is the unconscious choices I make."

"I don't think that the Pulitzer should be given the way it is. I think the competition should be anonymous. I think completely different people would win it if the names were taken off because a lot of it is done on relationships and names."

"Eighty percent of my pieces gravitate towards an A, as a tonal thing, not at the beginning, but somewhere in it."

"The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past."

"I think it's good for the composer to teach because you always have new students and you have to begin at the beginning and make things clear."

"You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award."
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