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"It's the irrational things that interest me."
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"The dog is almost human in its demand for living interest, yet fatally less than human in its inability to foresee."
"In those days, between the ages of 12 and 18 you meant nothing. You were the extra place at the side table if someone came to dinner. You were of no interest to anyone."
"We interest others by the misfortune we spread around us."
"One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void."
"I realized that anything to do with Fermat's Last Theorem generates too much interest."
"In those days the big U.S. labels didn't have any particular interest in the Latin market."
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"The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names."
"I think there are influences that you open the door to, and influences that come under the door."
"This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it."
"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!"
"Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it."
"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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