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"I know what I want at least, and the older I get I think I'm better at getting it out of players and singers."
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"I want to be a big, fleshy voluptuous woman with curves. I want a big bum, but I don't have one."
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Personal Development
"You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say."
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"I didn't want to wear a checked shirt and grow a mustache - that's what you had to do, and everyone did."
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"Make sure you visualize what you really want, not what someone else wants for you."
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"Everyone seemed to want a piece of Ronald Reagan. It was maddening."
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"It's not to late to... ask yourself if you really are the person you want to be, and if not, who you do want to be."
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"Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it."
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"You can never get enough of what you don't want."
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"I can't believe I've been doing it so long. In the last three or four years, I've slowed down. I'm doing only the roles I really want to do."
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"Shirley Maclaine once said that she didn't want to be a big star, just a long star. That's what I want too."
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"But when you get a bit older, and I hate to use the word, quite a bit more established, people take more notice and conducting becomes a great deal easier. You don't have battles like you had before."
People
"If you're writing a piece for the Boston Pops, the balance is towards one end. If you're writing a piece for a chamber music society, then it's towards another point. I won't make a final answer on that. I think it changes with every piece."
Music
"Recently I've been participating in radio and television talk programs doing broadcasts and conferences, and shooting my mouth off and really going to town."
Talk
"The establishment in Britain is certainly against the arts and against education. If something doesn't make a profit, it's invalid, and art doesn't make a profit in that sense."
Art
"But you can't really know your audiences so well."
Audience
"I know what I want at least, and the older I get I think I'm better at getting it out of players and singers."
Want
"The present government is very insistent that business sponsorship should replace government sponsorship of the arts. Business sponsorship won't happen unless you make tax concessions, which they won't."
Business
"You don't underestimate either players or audience in any circumstances."
Circumstance
"I recently did a piece for the Boston Pops and John Williams, and I hope that it's as well a composed piece as I've ever done for any other medium or occasion."
Hope
"I'm not actually teaching any more, but I am writing pieces for schools all the time, and for kids."
Time
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