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Harrison Birtwistle

"It's the irrational things that interest me."

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"It's the irrational things that interest me."

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"But there has also been a notable increase in recent years of these applications by a much wider slice of psychotherapists - far greater interest than ever before."

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"Since the model he so faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture... it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model."

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"I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have."

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"I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest."

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"We are so happy to advise others that occasionally we even do it in their interest."

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"One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void."

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"I don't know how anyone could vote Republican. It's so obvious that their only interest is keeping the rich rich."

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"Many of the French follow a Trade with the Indians, living very conveniently for that Interest."

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"I think Elaine would go out with anyone if they showed interest in her. She's nuts. The woman's nuts."

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"But be that as it may, I think it is more respectful to you that I should speak to you upon and do my best to interest you in the subject which has occupied me, and in which I am myself most interested."

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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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"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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"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 and my theatre works are very formal pieces."
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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 don't think there is much American music."
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"I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism."
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"I always write the pieces I want to write."
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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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