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"A maverick feels like he has no choice however difficult his choice of expression. In my case, it was going backwards into tonality. It seemed so wrong. The idea that progress is going into the past in a new way is very strange, even though there are precedents."
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"To move the earth like Archimedes, one needs not a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it. There is an easier way: Give a genius a beautiful remote house in a green valley where he can think calmly, and he shall move the earth with ideas!"
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"He looked at the silver pocketknife in his hand. An idea came to him " possibly the stupidest, craziest idea he'd had since he thought, Hey, I'll get Percy to swim in the River Styx! He'll love me for that!"
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"In the jungle of ideas, it is hard to find the true direction! The paths of the wrong ideas often seem to be very alluring!"
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"And I had an old-fashioned idea that dividends were a good thing."
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"An idea can change your fate in a wonderful way but you must first let the idea to touch your mind and your heart! No closed book can ever be your hero!"
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"Through your ideas, you open the window of your mind and say a hello to the world."
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"Ideas are the invisible Gods of our universe!"
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"Unless you close your door to other ideas, you will never remain idealess!"
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"I couldn't do any of my other characters, you know? But I could have done the lady. Church Lady's Malibu Beach party is an idea I have for a movie, too. Yes."
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"We need to ditch the idea that there is any value in the strong and silent man being in any way attractive. Being silent isn't being strong, it's being a victim."
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"I began like all composers, writing for small groups. Chamber groups."
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"A maverick feels like he has no choice however difficult his choice of expression. In my case, it was going backwards into tonality. It seemed so wrong. The idea that progress is going into the past in a new way is very strange, even though there are precedents."
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"When I first wrote for orchestra, I didn't realize, when you have 20 people playing a violin line, that is very different than one person playing that line."
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"Well, American composers are the best composers. At this time in the world, we are where the energy is. We are the most diverse, the most iconoclastic, the most maverick, and the most skillful."
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"Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments."
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