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"Almost every one of my various zero numbered birthdays has had a big concert in London and often in Paris."
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"On March 4th, 1830, I arrived in London, where a new world seemed opened to me."
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"The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world."
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"Four months after we finished shooting, I'd been in New Orleans shooting another movie and my agent and I were having a bite to eat - actually in London - and he's sitting there and goes, 'Wow, I just can't believe how ripped you are.'"
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"For Hunchback, we needed this live, gigantic choir. So we went to London and said, This is Disney! I need singers who can sing high D's, hold them for 18 seconds, and do it 60 times!"
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"I certainly have no plans to leave London. It's a great town."
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"Sometimes I miss the spirit of London, but it's a very gray place."
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"In London they don't like you if you're still alive."
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"I think London's sexy because it's so full of eccentrics."
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"John Lennon and Ringo Starr liked my songs. I used to write songs and they heard me sing songs on stage in London."
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"We used to play in a theater club in London called The King's Head. When the theater let nut, around 10:00 P.M., we'd be ready to go and really get it on for about an hour or so."
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"Right at the end of the war I wrote a piano sonata, which was written at a time when Sam Barber used to come down here and we used to have lunch together in a very nice old hotel that's now not there."
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"Then, when the Depression came, all of this changed completely. Since that time, the entire public is of a very different sort and there was not so much support for contemporary music in a direct way."
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"My entire life has really revolved around music that was written about the time that I was born, 1908, to just before the First World War and shortly after it. This music I've always known, and it is that music that's most important to me."
Life
"Talking about a materialistic thing, I get about 13 times more royalties from Europe than I do from America."
America
"I've known those pieces ever since I was about 16 or 17; I also at that time was taken to meet Charles Ives whom I got to know fairly well. He was the one who wrote a recommendation for me to get into college."
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"Well when I was young, when I was very young, when I was a little boy I don't remember the music I heard, but there was an article in the Brooklyn Daily written by my Aunt about how I could choose phonograph records."
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"Almost every one of my various zero numbered birthdays has had a big concert in London and often in Paris."
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"The Quartets have been a major part of my work."
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"It was only later on that I became more interested in older music."
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"In any case, Ives encouraged me to go into music even though he himself had such a hard time being a composer."
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