"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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"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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"The stars will live for me, if not anything else."

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"The deep breathe you just took to show that your problems are bigger than you, is the final breathe someone had taken right now in his life! As long as your breathe is not the final one, you still have a hope!"

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"Morning sunrise wakes me upwith rays of hope.Clouds of fear can hide the sunbut not for long.If rays of hope are strongand patience is a song,then hope will bloom andrain will bring a rainbow."

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"Hope is a little candle that continues to flicker in the heart in the darkest moments of impossibility."

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"Although I am far too frequently convinced otherwise, with God a dead-end is only the death of an end."

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"Hope is the little bird that continues to sing the songs of possibilities in your heart when everything else says to give up."

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"Hope is my guideline, happiness is my purpose, and love is my life's strength and power."

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"Forget the past! Look straight ahead with great hope."

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"It is on the canvass of the darkest storms that the brightest rainbows are painted."

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Audience

"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

"Recently I've been participating in radio and television talk programs doing broadcasts and conferences, and shooting my mouth off and really going to town."

Talk

"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

"I don't see how they can with most of my pieces, but I think it's unfortunate that they can through familiarity with flashy performances of a great deal of other music."

Music

"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

"At the moment, in Britain we're facing such enormous cutbacks in education programs and music programs and art programs that you feel you are knocking your head against a brick wall."

Art