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"The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past."
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"The structural thinking I use in the concert hall is unnecessary to most film projects, and most film composers make better use of the enormous range of pop and other materials and techniques required of them than I probably would, faced with the same challenge."
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"What I think of as style - and I've gotten to this over years of really thinking about it - is that style is the unconscious choices I make."
Choice

"The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past."
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"Jazz is not the popular culture. Jazz is in the same position in our culture as classical music. A very small minority of people really love it."
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"I find respect for a mediocre British composer, as opposed to a really good American, ridiculous because they automatically respect a composer if he's from England."
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"I don't think that the Pulitzer should be given the way it is. I think the competition should be anonymous. I think completely different people would win it if the names were taken off because a lot of it is done on relationships and names."
People

"I think art can reflect tragedy."
Art

"I have tremendous respect for film composers."
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"Eighty percent of my pieces gravitate towards an A, as a tonal thing, not at the beginning, but somewhere in it."
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"You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award."
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"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
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"Quite like religious fundamentalism, educational fundamentalism is based upon bookish creeds created by the self-proclaimed authority figures of the system. And this very fundamentalism is the cause of all the growing conflicts between the student-body of the education society and the teachers running that society. These conflicts further become tools of exploitation in the hands of a handful of war-mongering, authoritarian, blood-sucking politicians."
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"Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution."
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"Revolution is the accession of the peoples, and, at the bottom, the People is Man."
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"It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes."
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"Disobedience to rigid laws is a revolutionary act."
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"One can take the path of revolution but the revolution should not give a shock to the society. There is no place for violence in revolution."
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"A good religious is the one who fights against the religion for the sake of religion."
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"Every revolution starts with the aim to help the poor, but when the poor get it they forget who they were and become the new oppressors. The cycle goes on forever."
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"Sometimes all a country needs is an entire collapse for a new beginning!"
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