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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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"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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"I don't think the discus will ever attract any interest until they let us start throwing them at each other."

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"My interest in secret societies is the product of many experiences, some I can discuss, others I cannot."

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"We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd."

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"You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest."

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"I really don't have that much interest in stardom."

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"The interest which lay behind Federalism was that of well-to-do citizens in a stable political and social order, and this interest aroused them to favor and to seek some form of political organization which was capable of protecting their property and promoting its interest."

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"Judaism has always been a strong interest of mine. My two sons speak Hebrew and are familiar with the scriptures and with rabbinic literature. This is the way we live."

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"It's stunning to me what kind of an impact even one person can have if they have the right passion, perspective and are able to align the interest of a great team."

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"I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond."

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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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"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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"One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things."
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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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"I always write the pieces I want to write."
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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 usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter."
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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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"The piece that had a large influence on me was Turangalila."
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"I wrote music as soon as I knew notation."
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