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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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"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."
Challenge
"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."
Beginning
"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."
Revolution
"You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award."
Now
"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."
Love
"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."
American
"Art is not only about angst."
Art
"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."
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"If you have tears, prepare to shed them now."
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"Do not postpone your problems, solve them now! Because tomorrow you might be weaker than today and there might arise additional problems! Unsheathe your sword now; forget tomorrow, time is now!"
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"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted."
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"Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched."
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"The Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to Alaska. Now Santa Claus is missing."
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"Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail."
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"What is now proved was once only imagined."
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"What was previously perceived as nerdy is now viewed as original. What I like about nerdiness, geekiness, is it doesn't really matter what you're into - it just means you're not a follower."
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"I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn't know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen."
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"I'm not anxious to be anywhere other than where I am right now."
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