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"I recently did a piece for the Boston Pops and John Williams, and I hope that it's as well a composed piece as I've ever done for any other medium or occasion."
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"If there is no dream, there will be no hope. If there is no hope there will be no life."
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"Never be disabused of those hopes you believe in otherwise you will go far as far as you can't be."
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"The lightest weight anyone can carry on life's journey is hope."
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"Be brave enough to listen to your heart, be bold enough to hope for the best."
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"Love without hope will not survive.Love without faith changes nothing.Love gives power to hope and faith."
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"If you are still alive, your blessings are far from being over. Keep aiming higher and don't allow anyone or anything to steal your faith and hope."
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"True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings."
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"The darkest moments of the night herald the imminent advent of a radiant sun."
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"A seed today is a forest tomorrow."
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"I've never seen such a hunger in people for spiritual things . . .People realize the past is gone, the future is uncertain, and the present seems to be hopeless. As a result, many [in Moscow] were open to God."
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"If you're writing a piece for the Boston Pops, the balance is towards one end. If you're writing a piece for a chamber music society, then it's towards another point. I won't make a final answer on that. I think it changes with every piece."
Music

"I'm obviously very keen on the theater and I think it's inevitable that some of the orchestral and chamber pieces have got dramatic elements which might even suggest an unspecified dramatic plot of some kind or other, even though it's not in my mind at the time."
Time

"You don't underestimate either players or audience in any circumstances."
Circumstance

"The establishment in Britain is certainly against the arts and against education. If something doesn't make a profit, it's invalid, and art doesn't make a profit in that sense."
Art

"But when you get a bit older, and I hate to use the word, quite a bit more established, people take more notice and conducting becomes a great deal easier. You don't have battles like you had before."
People

"I'm not actually teaching any more, but I am writing pieces for schools all the time, and for kids."
Time

"But you can't really know your audiences so well."
Audience

"I know what I want at least, and the older I get I think I'm better at getting it out of players and singers."
Want

"I recently did a piece for the Boston Pops and John Williams, and I hope that it's as well a composed piece as I've ever done for any other medium or occasion."
Hope

"The present government is very insistent that business sponsorship should replace government sponsorship of the arts. Business sponsorship won't happen unless you make tax concessions, which they won't."
Business
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