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"We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past."
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"I've just simply used what I've used because of the great, great expressive potential of it."

"I think a lot of composers get into trouble just making up a plot and expecting an audience to follow that."

"I think one of the greatest enemies in the use of technology, however, is the idea that if you use the technology you have to throw other things out of the window."

"Well, opera began with an intent to resuscitate Greek drama, that is, modern opera as we know it."

"What's important for me is to communicate the vision that I have in sound with the audience that's hearing it."

"If you look at the timing of many of the Greek dramas from the theatrical point of view, it's all off, and I think the reason for that is that music played a very important part."

"But nevertheless, it's music ultimately that matters in opera, and opera is a piece of music reaching out as a vision in sound reaching out to the world."
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"If a man carefully examines his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead."

"Don't waste our children's future on man's past."

"Trying to see the face of the future? Know ye not that the future has infinite faces?"

"However much things have been said in the past, there will be always something new to be said in the future!"

"Since many things we see were once an idea, let us create good ideas today because they will be the realities of tomorrow! When you create an idea, do not forget that you shape the future! Idea is your God side! With ideas, you can change the universe, but only with very great ideas!"

"Since the future is unknown, nobody can really know where he is going! When asked, tell them you know not where you are going! You can only say where you wish to go!"
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