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"Either your understanding of the meaning of music is there from the beginning or it is not."
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"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."
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"When my opera Plump Jack was performed in 1989, my first piano teacher sent me something that I'd composed when I was four. I remember I played it, and it still sounded like me. I'm the same composer I was then."
"I've managed to dodge the curse. Not all my family have. Of course, music helped me - music is all about civilization, about something worthwhile. It's all about ideas."
"I've had every advantage in the world, despite the 18 years of silence which were nobody's fault but mine."
"If you have more money than you need, you have to give it away. It's a duty. I get to choose whom to sponsor, and I like to give to the areas that I know something about."
"The Getty family has been fully supportive throughout this situation, and for that, I am very grateful."
"There is no change - I'm as deep or as shallow as I ever was. What's new is on-the-job experience. This is what you gain with years."
"I do not think that music keeps evolving. It evolved through Bach; since then, in my humble opinion, all the innovations added nothing."
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