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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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"The future is called 'perhaps,' which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you."

"In the future, man will be able to create an artificial Sun which is very similar to the Sun in the sky that was once upon a time worshipped as a god!"

"I listen to other guitar players, yeah. It gives me new concepts and shows me where the instrument is going for the future and it is going some places. There are some musicians who are really putting out a good vibe with new theories. I try and keep up."

"There are so many futures still to dawn!"

"What are they going to do to me that they haven't done already? They took away my entire past. They took away my entire future. What's left for them to take?"

"I think in order to move forward into the future, you need to know where you've been."
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"In other words, I think that if an audience listens to something as an experience of how in tune it is or something of that kind, that the whole point is somehow being missed, and the music has failed."

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

"Nevertheless, one doesn't have time to think, oh, well, this is a quarter tone sharp, or flat."

"I'm thinking in terms of a point of departure, a field of action for performers to express an expressive need of mine which hopefully the context of music would convey."

"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."

"However, yes, especially as one gets older, you know, you really hope that your music will become more generally available, even though some of the performances might be riddled with faults."

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