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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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"We imagined ourselves as the Sons of Liberty with a mission to preserve, protect, and project the revolutionary spirit of rock and roll. We feared that the music which had given us sustenance was in danger of spiritual starvation. We feared it losing its sense of purpose, we feared it falling into fattened hands, we feared it floundering in a mire of spectacle, finance, and vapid technical complexity."
"The revolution that counts is the one that takes place in the imagination; many kinds of change issue forth thereafter, some gradual and subtle, some dramatic and conflict-ridden--which is to say that revolution doesn't necessarily look like revolution."
"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."
"A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal."
"The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows. Remember that."
"It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes."
"The revolution of today is the oppression of tomorrow."
"The revolution of consciousness is connected to the food revolution."
"You can carry out a spiritual revolution by making God's truth the head of everything."
"We are not subjects of a State founded upon law, but members of a society founded upon revolution. Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution. The Revolution is in the individual spirit, or it is nowhere. It is for all, or it is nothing. If it is seen as having any end, it will never truly begin."
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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."
"You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"I think it's good for the composer to teach because you always have new students and you have to begin at the beginning and make things clear."
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